[BC] Wow, I wonder if y ou feel the same way about AM?

[Broadcast List USER]

Yes, most of the world is still analog, and for good economic reasons.

HOWEVER, the stations are not shoe-horned in.  Much of the world has 9  
kHz spacing on AM, yet they are able to have much higher bandwidth,  
better audio quality, and no interference.

We have crammed our AM and FM bands, and interference is the main  
problem.  If we hadn't done that, we wouldn't had many or most of the  
problems we have today.

It isn't that the rest of the world is smarter, it is that we are  
STUPID.

--chip

On Jan 31, 2010, at 3:58 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 16
> From: Mike McCarthy <towers at mre.com>
> [...]
> OTOH, MOST of the world are still analog radio. NOT digital. I would  
> argue
> to say that more than 99% of the world still operates/actively uses  
> analog
> radio and will for years to come.
>
> The manufactureres ARE driving this reduction in quality and the FCC
> SHOULD step in to have them FIX the problem before they mandate and/or
> allow anything new of Part 73 licensees.
>
> MM