[Milsurplus] AM ( Milsurplus Vol 132, Issue 7 ) and all

[Hue Miller]

Reports of the AM band's demise are premature.
As for traffic reports, in the big cities, traffic reports are about every 
10 minutes,
24x7.
There is actually quite a diversity on the AM band. ( Not in my town, 
though. )
You have NPR stations, all news, all comedy, all traffic, all Elvis, 
Indiapop,
Spanish language, Chinese, Russian, Native American, and more.
Here on the Oregon coast, at night I regularly listen to KOH 780 Las Vegas,
for the John Bachelor talk show. Sometimes in winter I can listen to the
catchy rhythms of an Indiapop station in San Francisco. Before it changed
format years ago, I used to regularly listen to classic music station in SF
CA, KKHI on 1550. I found listening to long-distance classical music at
night a truly wonderful experience.

Also, AM listening is a good way to exercise some of those classic radios,
and an opportunity for them to still serve, for some old mil radios, whether
troop entertainment receivers, some aircraft radio receiver, or some such.

Someone remind me of the name of that fellow in CA who was a morale-
radio collector; he had also worked as a merchant mariner, I believe; passed
away from cancer something like ten years ago?  He was a high-integrity
gentleman.
-Hue Miller