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

[Broadcast List USER]

I disagree.

The AMs on London sound like FM.  They have great bandwidth, transmit  
very high frequency audio, and sound very clean.

We don't have that here at all.

Our bandwidth is very limited, and with the EQ, compression and  
limiting, not to mention the clipping, our AM audio sounds like crap.

It isn't as if we couldn't, but we sure don't provide decent audio on  
AM.

OK, we are limited by first and second adjacent stations.

In England, they do have 9 kHz spacing, but they keep the first,  
second and third adjacent clear from locals.

--chip

On Feb 1, 2010, at 1:20 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 14
> From: "Dan Dickey" <dldickey at verizon.net>
>
>> 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.
>
> Um, I don't think the foregoing is accurate in most of the rest of the
> world. In a 9kHz grid allotment scheme each station will usually be  
> required
> to use a 4.5kHz brick-wall filter on their audio chain. AM in the  
> rest of
> the world has a lot less bandwidth than here in the US.
>
> Regards,
> Dan