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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:06:38 +0800, Robert Bannister    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 23/08/13 3:10 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >I don't recall hearing the term until FM became popular, and that's not   
   >very long ago. All we knew was Short Wave, Medium Wave and Long Wave.   
      
   All of which were AM, I think. AM has been around for about a century or so,   
   since Marconi, perhaps. AM is a retronym, Shirley?   
      
   Then there's SSB.   
      
   It's like you didn't hear "audio tape" until video tape became popular, and   
   now the "tape" is dropped because there are other media for recording sound   
   and pictures.   
      
      
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