Listen up, you maggots. This is an order!

 

 

 

Well, that's interesting.  Does anyone have an AM radio they listen to at home?

I remember having to buy radio-suppression spark plug wires for my 1968 Chevelle or the AM radio would get a lot of static.

The last time I listened to AM radio was Ron Engelman's show on KGBS 1190 in the Dallas area during the Waco standoff.  Later met Engelman in person at his home.

When I was a teen, 1190 was KLIF, a top 40 radio station.  Very popular in Dallas.

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I remember when a car didn't come with any radio, or air conditioning, or power windows, power steering, no air bags, and it had this thing called a carburetors, and you had to choke it and pump the gas pedal to get it going 🤣

My early cars in  high school were those old 80s Honda Civics with the carburetor, I still had one up to a few years ago and it ran great, It is probably the last one left in my city still on the road. Someone else has it now I still see it every so often

1 hour ago, LHookins said:

Well, that's interesting.  Does anyone have an AM radio they listen to at home?

I have one of these, but it also has other bands:

I had a really cool radio that I had tons of fun with when I was a little kid.  I found these pictures of it on an eBay listing.  It's an RCA Victor model 4-C-671:

It wound up on my nightstand when I was little. it must of originally been my brothers; he was 20 years older than me, so he was already in the Army at that time.  I loved that radio.  At night you could get far away stations; that was always fun exploring what you could pull in.  I could get stations all over west of the Mississippi.

Being a big baseball fan starting in the 1960s my team was (and still is) the S.F. Giants.  Back then I would keep track of the pennant races.  I could easily get KFI in Los Angeles, which broadcast the Dodger games.  So in the evening I would have the Giants on my hand held transistor radio an the Dodgers on this one.

The funniest part of this radio is that a long time ago, an ant had somehow got inside it.

The ant wound up on the front half of the red second hand and died there.  For decades it would orbit around the face of the clock.

 

I still listen to AM radio.  The FM stations in my area are music stations.  If I want sports or news, I have to listen to AM.

My car radio is a combo CD player AM/FM radio.  I listen to KCBS AM news radio and I own exactly
0 (Zero) CDs.  Now I do have my cellphone bluetoothed through my car radio so I can answer it
if it rings, hands free, while I'm driving!

(turning on my AM car radio and ...) 1 877 cars for kids. Donate you car today... 

I listen to am radio all the time in my pickup.  Great for news, traffic and sports.

4 hours ago, Fielder said:

 

(turning on my AM car radio and ...) 1 877 cars for kids. Donate you car today..

 

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

 

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While I never use radio in my daily life, we should still have it as a backup.  It is a bit like GPS vs Vor.  Is everyone using GPS?  Of course, but what if GPS goes down?  

We had a bad blizzard here a couple years ago and were without power for many days.  Cell service was really spotty, and of course once your phone battery died, that was it.  

Fortunately I still had a battery operated radio to get some sort of news (and entertainment).  

On one hand I get it, I don't think I even have any radio stations programmed in my car, but AM radio might be the last resort if there's ever a disaster.  Do I ever plan to use it?  No, but I want it there just in case.  

Also I'm guessing it costs next to nothing.  

The real question is how long will AM radio keep broadcasting?  

@Mike A  Backing out of my driveway about 30 minutes ago to go up to Diamond Heights Safeway,
bet you can't guess what commercial came on the radio!

34 minutes ago, charliearon said:

bet you can't guess what commercial came on the radio!

AAAAGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!

8 hours ago, kerosene31 said:

The real question is how long will AM radio keep broadcasting?  

I think mostly just news and talk radio is left at this point, can't remember the last time I went on AM but I know the 24 news channels we have on AM also broadcast on FM at the same time so no need to go to AM anymore. 

The advantage in emergencies is AM broadcasts further then FM because FM is a line of sight frequency, that's why they require a bigger tower to transmit and also requires more power, the AM radio is not line of sight and can go further and doesn't require as much power, so probably a generator could run an AM operation, so that explains the logic behind that law, if there was an emergency you will have a better chance to get updates on an AM radio then an FM radio, especially in remote areas.

Next time we have a big earthquake I will be greatful for my AM radio in the car because that could possibly become the only place I have to listen to updates on the AM band while the FM stations are out because they require more power, and the car becomes the only place I have to charge my phones while the grid is out. So yes if you think about it this law makes sense, but until a disaster happens people will make fun of it.

lol

 

 

6 hours ago, Fielder said:

lol

 

That was like putting lipstick on a pig 🐷 🤪