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This is the most important use of AM radio in cars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelers%27_information_stati...

which side of the line did you intend to place yourself with that statement?

I found that AM radio had so much interference 20 years ago listening to Radio Disney that I gave up. (oh god. That might be closer to 30yrs now)

Dipping my toes into software defined radios (RTL-SDR, and a HackRF), I found AM to be incoherent in my area.

So, what exactly is there to save? It's obvious there's an agenda- FCC already has enough latitude to allow low power FM broadcasts to replace AM ones without external involvement.

bloomberg radio has been my go to station for the past 16 years or so since it broadcasts in some major markets and i have no difficulty getting signal even at night. it is way better than using internet radio with buggy apps and where they inject an ad right before the stream starts playing.

They just sold their AM in the bay, (or at least at the beginning of the month it went to some sports talk radio)

Lol, every country listed on your linked Wikipedia page (except US and Japan) use FM.

I think you succeeded in motivating for the opposite of what you intended...

We’re talking about US legislation though. So it’s very relevant.

Was at a rest stop and heard talking coming from a box on a pole. It was reading out the weather in TTS voice, guessing it was the transmitter for one of these stations.

It was probably NOAA Weather Radio.

https://www.weather.gov/nwr/

Which is not AM

Which is why I think this whole thing is really dumb. You know what would be actually useful for requiring in cars that wouldn't otherwise be included? A NOAA weather radio mode in the car, along with the option to have it automatically alert me when it detects an alert. In a disaster I'll be listening to that, not trying to hunt down an AM radio station I haven't willingly listened to in decades.

cool we should add that to the mandate and lets toss in some of the emergency bands while we're at it. chips are cheap these days.

NOAA provides weather, but it isn’t going to tell you specific evacuation routes, or provide relevant news.

Emergency alerts are automatically broadcast over NOAA weather radio.

You can get home receivers that monitor NOAA radio for emergency alerts tones and will automatically switch on in a disaster.

It's a great feature, every home should have one.

I've definitely heard evacuation information broadcast over NOAA radio. Have you been in a mass evacuation before?

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