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Re:Control EMI, Don’t Dump Am Receivers by jollyllama on Monday April 03, 2023 @11:43AM (#35425713)
There's a lot of low cost, ethnic and community stations that broadcast on AM here in the states. From Mexican, to Indian, to polka music.
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Re:Control EMI, Don’t Dump Am Receivers by PeterisP on Monday April 03, 2023 @12:01PM (#35426100)
Why can't these ethnic stations broadcast on FM instead?
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Re:Control EMI, Don’t Dump Am Receivers by SoftTalker on Monday April 03, 2023 @12:15PM (#35426422)
Possibly frequencies are not available, or the cost of equipment is too high?
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Re:Control EMI, Don’t Dump Am Receivers by officeplant on Monday April 03, 2023 @04:08PM (#35430506)
Usually licensing & equipment costs or being in an area with a saturated market as far as FM is concerned and having to go up against media corporations with 20+ stations under their belt. I don't even live in Texas but there is a ton of weird texas stations I can find on a good night with my old reliable radioshack shortwave radio.
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