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   On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 03:57:03PM -0400, Michael Trew wrote:   
   > I'm probably the oldest 28 year old on the planet, but I enjoy my   
   > broadcast radio, and I particularly enjoy pulling in distant   
   > clear-channel stations at night. You'll regularly find me tuning   
   > into 650 AM WSM from Nashville on my 10 PM commute home in Western   
   > PA/Eastern Ohio.  I'd like to see amplitude modulation and broadcast   
   > radio, in general, to live on.   
      
   In 1978 and 1979, I worked at radio stations in Santa Barbara,   
   California, while I attended college there. The first station I worked   
   at had purchased a Volkswagon "Thing" automobile from a soldier who   
   brought it home from Germany. It had an AM radio that tuned the   
   European broadcast band, around 200 KHz, and every week, I would drive   
   it up to the top of the Los Padres forest to check the station's   
   transmitter.   
      
   I could here Deutsche Welle all the way up and all the way back down,   
   all during the ride, on about 200 KHz, which is the low end of the   
   band where aircraft marker beacons operate in the U.S. IIRC, I could   
   even hear the marker beacon at the Santa Barbara airport.   
      
   I was the happiest 26 year old in the world. I even learned a few   
   words of German!   
      
   Bill   
      
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