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   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 10:21:09 +0800, Robert Bannister   
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   rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.books:   
      
   > On 23/08/13 2:11 PM, Brian M. Scott wrote:   
      
   >> On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:06:38 +0800, Robert Bannister   
   >>  wrote in   
   >>  in   
   >> rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.books:   
      
   >>>> 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.   
      
   >> Which term?  AM radio?  I remember making the AM - FM   
   >> distinction over 50 years ago, and I’ve been listening to FM   
   >> for at least 45 years (and most definitely *not* listening   
   >> to AM!).   
      
   > Interesting. I had never heard of either until about 20-25   
   > years ago, if that long. I still don't know what they   
   > stand for and am too lazy to look it up.   
      
   Amplitude modulation and frequency modulation.   
      
   > FM radio here only seems to play music, so it does not   
   > attract me at all, but I'm told a Big Change is coming,   
   > which presumably means the stations I do listen to will   
   > migrate.   
      
   AM is either talk or popular music that I find largely   
   intolerable.   
      
   On FM I can tolerate NPR except when they let listeners   
   talk, but apart from that I dislike talk radio intensely.   
   My preference is for classical music, most preferably   
   baroque, but when I’m travelling I’ll take most things up to   
   about the middle of the 19th century if that’s all that’s   
   available.  That means FM, and poor pickings in most parts   
   of the country.  From here to Baltimore there’s WCLV, WKSU,   
   KQED, one of the West Virginia Public Radio stations, and   
   WETA, and that’s about it.  Going west, Chicago is a   
   wasteland.  (Come to think of it, I’d also listen to ‘folk’   
   of the sort that you’d expect from Judy Collins or Peter,   
   Paul, & Mary, but that’s even less common.)   
      
   Brian   
      
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