AM definitely needs to stick around. I tune in most days to listen to Bongino on am 580 around here. I can remember Saturday nights when I was a kid tuning in the Grand Ol Opry on a transistor radio. Used to be a lot less static and that was several hundred air miles away. Now I can be looking at a cell tower a few hundred feet away and still can't make a call. Something just doesn't make sense.
About the only signal you CAN count on in a crisis is AM - even FM signals don't 'bounce' the way AM does. You're right, though - far more static than there used to be; too much digital interference seems to be a viable answer to me.
I too feel a bit of nostalgia about AM - a transistor radio at night, listening in to the local country station... Cash, Waylon, Tanya... good times. Cell towers are a bane, IMO.
AM definitely needs to stick around. I tune in most days to listen to Bongino on am 580 around here. I can remember Saturday nights when I was a kid tuning in the Grand Ol Opry on a transistor radio. Used to be a lot less static and that was several hundred air miles away. Now I can be looking at a cell tower a few hundred feet away and still can't make a call. Something just doesn't make sense.
About the only signal you CAN count on in a crisis is AM - even FM signals don't 'bounce' the way AM does. You're right, though - far more static than there used to be; too much digital interference seems to be a viable answer to me.
I too feel a bit of nostalgia about AM - a transistor radio at night, listening in to the local country station... Cash, Waylon, Tanya... good times. Cell towers are a bane, IMO.