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Re: [IRCA] AM down the road
- Subject: Re: [IRCA] AM down the road
- From: "Fred Schroyer" <freditor@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 22:04:47 -0500
Title: Message
Re the recent posts,
2 thoughts...
We say it's the
programming content, not the sound quality, but that's only partly true...last
week I met a 30-something who enjoys '40s-'50s pop...Bobby Vinton, Mills
Bros, Sinatra, Como, big bands, etc....a real oddity, considering his young
age... anyway, he did not know that a station in the next town, WPDX-750 1kW-NDD
in Clarksburg, WV runs MOYL...we were driving in the area, so I turned it
on...and he loved the format, but it kept fading, and frequently was obliterated
by intense QRM...and he asked, "Do they have an FM?" Sigh. Such is FM's
reputation for quality, and the reality of AM's noisiness...maybe this
fact-of-life is what gives (false) hope to AM's IBOC
adopters...
Clearly, the BCB's
days are fading. Perhaps, as tower lights gradually wink out on the AM band,
maybe we'll get to enjoy a few years of retrograde, back thru the '60s and '50s,
with channels opening up again, like it used to be on those MON mornings so many
of us remember so fondly, and several of you have so vividly described in recent
posts, when you could catch a 1 kw or lower-powered s/on, s/off, or AN far
distant...
Fred Schroyer
Freelance Science Writer /
Editorial Consultant
955 Sixth Street - Waynesburg, PA 15370
(40 air mis S of Pittsburgh - 20 air mis N of Morgantown,
WV)
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