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AM goes MUCH further than FM. And the USA is friggin' HUGE.
by WirelessGigabit 4y ago
AM goes MUCH further than FM.
And the USA is friggin' HUGE.
- alkonaut 4y agoIt's no bigger than Europe and individual states correspond quite well to a European state in terms of density and population. So size and density alone doesn't really explain all the differences between Europe and the US, nor in this case. For the sparser areas one can easily compare the northern half of Sweden to e.g. Idaho (northern half of Sweden has the same area as Idaho but half the population at 1M). There is FM coverage behind every tree. Don't ask me what the cost difference would be if that had been solved with one big AM transmitter instead of dozens of FM transmitters. But at least the emergency broadcasts will be stereo.