>much better range than FM (especially at night)>clear enough for speech and low-fidelity music>$10 device needed to access it>other than the band range being extended during the 1990s, a transistor unit from the 60s will still work perfectlyWhat went so right? Obviously it's not all that popular, but still remains the most resilient way to listen to news & emergency info.
>>108611568fuck is this
>>108611568AM: Always Mexican
>>108611568It's used as a vehicle of propaganda for uneducated bumpkins. That, alone, is reason enough to despise it.
The simplicity is awesome. The amount of layers and complexity people now use to listen to music and radio is insane and very fragile. Quality is shit though.
>>108611568There aren't really radio stations on AM in my country anymore. I think there's 1 but they only broadcast for a couple of hours a day. For all intents and purposes, it is obsolete here.
The audio quality is dogshit, but it its unironically kino for spoken word stuff like news and listening to whatever crap like wakeup sheelpe stuff and the word of god stuff. considering it goes far and is stable you can essentially just tune in and have that anywhere.
>>108611568>never obsoleteThis is antisemitic anon, do better sweaty.
>>108611568It's so incredibly simple that there isn't much to go wrong, and being one of the first ways to transmit audio at scale, it was assigned an optimal frequency range for the purpose right from the beginning.You can make a receiver out of literal junk that doesn't even need batteries. As the lowest common denominator, it's just too damn useful to go away.
>>108611720FM: Forever Mexican
Remember AM stereo?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM_stereohttp://www.amstereo.org
