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   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   Gene Wirchenko  wrote:   
      
   >On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 18:13:50 +0000 (UTC), tmcd@panix.com (Tim   
   >McDaniel) wrote:   
   >   
   >>In article ,   
   >>David DeLaney   wrote:   
   >>>Dave, and I don't know if anyone's mentioned the   
   >>> digitalness/push-buttonness of radio tuning now, vs the old   
   >>> turn-the-knob-and-it-creeps-analogically. and who knows what he'd   
   >>> make of the SEEK button   
   >>   
   >>(Since radio isn't usually important, I didn't want to consider it as   
   >>an actual impediment.)   
   >   
   >      Another difference.  I have seen road signs saying to tune to a   
   >certain AM frequency for traffic conditions.   
      
   I remember that the highway conditions stations were often out-of-band   
   by a bit, say 1610 KHz.  But now that I'm thinking of it, can you even   
   get there on a digital radio?  I guess that they must be in-band   
   nowadays.  In the analog era you could generally tune past where the   
   band should end by a bit.   
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