XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.books   
   From: lcraver@home.ca   
      
   On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:17:45 -0700, Gene Wirchenko    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:42:36 +0800, Robert Bannister   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >[snip]   
   >   
   >>I don't think it is just digital tuning that has limits on where you   
   >>reach these days, but I've just checked the small radio I keep on the   
   >>dining room table: it goes from 88 to just over 1600 KHz - I'm sure my   
   >                                 ^^              ^^^^^^^^   
   >     FM low (MHz), AM high.   
   >   
   >>car radio doesn't have a range like that.   
      
   AM radio is traditionally 530 - 1605 Khz - not sure when that was   
   established but pre-WW2.   
      
   My late grandfather despaired as he dreamed of making me a radio ham   
   (oops - it's skipped a generation - he died 1970, my son born 1991 is   
   everything he could have asked for) but loaded me up with old   
   electronic books which explained early stuff like what happened to VHF   
   TV channel 1 (it got hived off for FM radio) and the origins of UHF   
   channels 14-83 which didn't really take off in Canada before Cable   
   took over - cable channels 14+ don't really have anything to do with   
   the old broadcast UHF channels.   
      
   I was one of these electronics nerds who at 13 could read the   
   resistors and capacitors and tell exactly what the bands represented   
   without having a real clue on how all that stuff went together.   
      
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