[BC] Overcrowding & noise floor on AM

[WFIFeng@aol.com]

In a message dated 03/19/2007 05:01:21 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
wbzq1300 at verizon.net writes:

> Not foolish politics, it's those pesky 800 million receivers to replace. 

Well, that's what the "IBUZ Cheerleaders" (tm) are hoping for. 
Kinda silly, ain't it?   And only the graveyarders move? In a market with big 
and little signals, 
>  you'd banish them somewhere where no one will find them. 

Not at all. The idea was to expand the FM band downward. Radios would be 
*inexpensive*. Japan's FM band starts in the 70 Mhz range, so they are *already
 
mass-producing* radios that will go there. It wouldn't take much to modify 
existing analog radios, (tweak a coil & a trimmer) and digitally-tuned sets cou
ld 
be easily re-manufactured and just as cheap. (Swap-out a chip? Ground or 
unground a pin?) Less-than-twenty-dollar pocket portables would abound, and wou
ld 
play for hours on a pair of AA batteries. (None of the above appears anywhere o
n 
the horizon for IBUZ radios.)

> If that's the 
>  case, then, simpleton's idea of killing all the daytimers and small fry 
>  would be more  streamlined. And no additional spectrum would be used. 

That was absolutely the ***last*** place I was going with this! 
*I*am*a*Daytimer*!!! Remember?? A Daytimer with no hope... zip, zilch, nada, of
 *any* 
useful nighttime operation. None.

>  You'd just put us out of business. Thanks.

GOD Forbid!!!! 
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