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   From: robban@clubtelco.com   
      
   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.   
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   Robert Bannister   
      
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