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Can You Say "NIMBY"?

Bongwater

Bongwater

http://www.radio-broadcast-engineer.com/AM-interference-power.htm

This came out about a month ago and it's interesting.

I can see the dilemma facing AM broadcasters with all this electronic crap we have today. On the surface, it wouldn't be such a bad idea. But as Mr. Skotdal can tell you, even the most modest power increases create an even worse form of radio static - not RF, but FO (I'll leave what "FO" means to your imagination) from various environmental fringe groups and "concerned" neighbors as they nuke their organic vegan TV dinners in close proximity to a 2,000 watt microwave oven.

So to stir up a hornet's nest (we need it up here lately), what is YOUR take on this issue? Is 10x daytime power too much? How about 4x? Or any at all?

Now if you'll excuse me, my tofu tacos in organic blue corn tortillas are done.......








(Just kidding. I'd NEVER eat that crap....)
 
isn't nuking your food from nearby radio RF kind of like using solar power for lights? You don't pay for it ... you get to use it for your own advantage ... and solar has that nasty side effect of melanoma. Now if you're trying to heat your beach by covering it in washed up crude oil ... that may be a little off message.
 
Revamping AM radio is kinda of like trying to get high def TV on an older glass tube type TV, it may be possible but then again it may not be. No matter what you do to improve the sound of AM due to the limited bandwidth per channel you are going to have trouble with adjacent interference on one or maybe two channels either way. AM radio was setup back in a time when just being able to hear something over radio was a big big thing, now it is a different ballgame altogether. If there was room I would say respace your frequency setup with half as many allotments on the dail per given area and double each stations bandwidth to try and stay in step with current technology but then again you would need newer AM radio's to take advantage of it not mention an act of congress and the FCC.
 
You can get HDTV on a CRT tube - in fact my very first HDTV I bought in 2005 was a Sanyo CRT until we upgraded to flat screen a year later.

Whilst I agree it might be too much too late for AM, as long as there are AM-only broadcasters (and there's LOTS of them still), it's still on the table.
 
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