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Re:Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars by giantg2 on Sunday October 06, 2024 @07:51PM (#41761400)
I think it's more like a radio in a plane. You sometimes have travel advisories and signs telling you to tune to an AM frequency when flashing. A radio in the trunk doesn't do you any good and could lead to a real mess if everyone had to pull over to use it. If you're already putting FM radios and stuff in the car, it shouldn't be a problem to put an AM radio in. If interference is an issue, then they should be working to clean that up with better shielding.
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Re:Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars by LorenPechtel on Monday October 07, 2024 @02:10PM (#41769049)
And the intended purpose is emergency use. It doesn't matter if the audio isn't spectacular, all that matters is that a human voice be understood.

And note that AM is much more forgiving of terrain than FM. You can still be shadowed but the lower the frequency the less likely you are to be shadowed from the transmitter.

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