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Re: [IRCA] BEITC Preview: âFCC AM Revitalization â What It Is, the Impact and Consequencesâ
- Subject: Re: [IRCA] BEITC Preview: âFCC AM Revitalization â What It Is, the Impact and Consequencesâ
- From: Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 16:26:35 -0400
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In the real world, culturally, AM passed its peak decades ago. For most
people under a certain age, AM is either unknown or irrelevant.
The industry seems to always have the same answers - more stations, more
power, fewer regulations - the last being the staple of pretty much any
industry you can name over the past 20 or so years. More power simply
increases the baseline. More stations, more hours increases the amount of
interference. Interference from other devices ( which have their own
lobbyists ) are ignored - rules which have existed for some time are not
enforced.
So to me, this is just another round of same-old-same-old with one
exception. That exception is the addition and expansion of FM translators
for AM's. ( There are some in this area running a ridiculous 250 watts !).
Ultimately that accomplishes a similar escalation of power and stations on
FM, which will push FM into a place similar to where AM is today.
Bottom line though, broadcast radio is still fighting an uphill battle
against other means of providing audio entertainment. It's just that the
broadcast industry and the FCC have ended up enabling the "enemy".
Russ Edmunds
15 mi NW Phila
Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
AM: Modified Sony ICF2010's (4) barefoot w/whip
FM: Yamaha T-80 & T-85, each w/ Conrad RDS Decoder;
Onkyo T-450RDS; Tecsun PL-310 ( 4);
modified Sony ICF2010's (3) w/APS9B @ 15';
modified Sony ICF2010 w/whip
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Dennis Gibson <wb6tnb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://www.radioworld.com/nab-show/0028/beitc-preview-fcc-
> am-revitalization--what-it-is-the-impact-and-consequences/339402
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