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   From: ted@loft.tnolan.com   
      
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   Greg Goss   wrote:   
   >Robert Bannister  wrote:   
   >   
   >>On 23/08/13 2:11 PM, Brian M. Scott wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> 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. 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.   
   >   
   >My parents had an FM tube radio before we moved to Kelowna in 1964,   
   >twice a long ago as you mention.  I was listening to FM stations on   
   >the cable TV connection when going to university in 1978.   
   >--   
   >We are geeks.  Resistance is voltage over current.   
      
   The US had FM pre-WWII, but David Sarnoff used his political influence to   
   get the FCC to kill it, setting the technology back decades, destroying   
   the Yankee Network and driving Edwin Armstrong to suicide..   
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