[78-L] The Fading Sounds of Analog Technology ^

[agp]

At 20:48 05/03/2011, RS wrote:
>Now hold on there, pardner.
>Since when are these sounds gone, faded or even extinct?  There are 
>still plenty of radios that are (a) analog tuned, or (b), if 
>digital, tune in less than the "standard" 9- or (in the Americas) 
>10-kHz "channelized" segments


But the sound of tuning an AM radio across the dial at 11.30 PM on a 
cold winter night is radically different than it was say in the 60 
and 70s due to the changes in FCC regulations about clear channel 
frequencies, longer broadcast days for small stations (albeit a flea 
watt power) and the same networked mostly talk programming found at 
least once within every 100 khz segment. To me, what was once a 
tapestry of sound is now a grungy mess of white noise

T