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Date: 31 May 2023 16:54:51 +0200
From: "Marco Moock" <mo01@posteo.de>
Subject: Re: Congress moves to preserve AM radio in cars
Am 31.05.2023 um 09:07:56 Uhr schrieb Bill Horne:
> On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 03:57:03PM -0400, Michael Trew wrote:
>> I'm probably the oldest 28 year old on the planet, but I enjoy my
>> broadcast radio, and I particularly enjoy pulling in distant
>> clear-channel stations at night. You'll regularly find me tuning
>> into 650 AM WSM from Nashville on my 10 PM commute home in Western
>> PA/Eastern Ohio. I'd like to see amplitude modulation and broadcast
>> radio, in general, to live on.
>
> In 1978 and 1979, I worked at radio stations in Santa Barbara,
> California, while I attended college there. The first station I worked
> at had purchased a Volkswagon "Thing" automobile from a soldier who
> brought it home from Germany. It had an AM radio that tuned the
> European broadcast band, around 200 KHz, and every week, I would drive
> it up to the top of the Los Padres forest to check the station's
> transmitter.
> I could here Deutsche Welle all the way up and all the way back down,
> all during the ride, on about 200 KHz, which is the low end of the
> band where aircraft marker beacons operate in the U.S. IIRC, I could
> even hear the marker beacon at the Santa Barbara airport.
In Europe an Asia, 3 bands are used for AM transmissions: long wave
(153 kHz to 179, long time ago until ~350 kHz), medium wave (520-1620
kHz) and SW (many bands).
Long wave hasn't been used in all countries, some are still on air.
Deutsche Welle is a German foreign station that operated on SW and a
little bit on MW, bot newer on long wave (LW).
200 kHz might be the BBC from England. Their TX is still on air on 198
kHz.
In Germany, 153, 207 (Deutschlandfunk) and 177 (DRadio, former GDR) were
on air. In Burg was 261 on air with a German transmission, but only some
years after the soviet army moved out that has been closed.
Except for Burg, all other LW TX were demolished in the last years.
Burg is still on air on a lower frequency for controlling power meters.
Now LW is almost dead, stations are being switched off and antennas are
going to be demolished.
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Date: 31 May 2023 23:31:55 -0400
From: "Bill Horne" <digest-replies@telecomdigest.net>
Subject: FCC Seeking Comment On Proposed Anti-Robocall Measures,
TCPA Consent Issues
by Kate Patton
During its May open meeting, the Federal Communications Commission
considered a Report and Order, Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking,
and Notice of Inquiry that would expand call-blocking requirements,
enlist service providers in the fight against unwanted robocalls, and
seek comment on several other options to further enhance consumer
protections.
According to the Commission, "[u]nwanted call complaints continue to
be far-and-away the largest category of consumer complaints to the
FCC, with approximately 157,000 in 2020, 164,000 in 2021, [and]
119,000 in 2022." Last year, U.S. consumers reported a total of $798
million lost to fraud via phone call.
https://www.mondaq.com/article/news/1320536?q=1803232&n=803&tp=22&tlk=13&lk=107
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