[Milsurplus] AI response to Jack Antonio’s request on FM v AM in aircraft.

[howard holden]

The capture effect on FM is very real. It could perhaps mess up a real emergency. Of course it can happen anywhere but mostly in fringe reception.

73, Howie WB2AWQ
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> On Jul 30, 2025, at 20:03, Facility 406 <facility_406 at bruteforcedevelopment.com> wrote:
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>> Years ago, I asked why AM instead of FM for air traffic. Because of FM's capture effect, one transmitter could obliterate another at a critical moment.
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> That's what they say.
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> On the other hand, myself, and at least one other fellow in the forums have noted, on a near daily basis, that "FM capture affect", isn't much of a thing, if at all.  I regularly hear more than one FM transmitter at a time, whether it's two-way radio comms, or broadcast.
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> Perhaps there was once some crappy transmitters/receivers and the issue is now applied to everything, everywhere?
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> On the other hand, whether AM, or FM, the strongest station is heard, in which case AM also appears to "capture".  As for heterodyne, and garbling, when two people talk?  It's equal, AM, or FM, it either works, or doesn't.
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> Where I am, everything is "fringe".  That would not suggest a capture affect, but someone listening to a radio, hearing a louder station better, because it's closer.  Modulation scheme wouldn't change that.
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> So, since as recently as this afternoon, FM captures nothing, what's the real story, how did it happen, and why does it persist?
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> As for AI...
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> I searched google for "Science White paint" last night.  AI proceeded to tell me about the "science of whiteness", get into some real psychotic racist horsesh*t, tell me all about what a terrible thing I'm asking, and what and how I should really think, ways of interacting with different peoples (my gal is white, red, and black, I think I can handle it!), and tied the "paint" aspect to the deranged BS by adding comments about graffiti, and vandalism.
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> For f--k sake, I asked about paint used on antennas.
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> AI needs to be "suicided", killed outright, done. Gone forever.  It failed.  The clue is in the A, artificial, meaning NOT real, so, I guess, ignore it entirely.  Easy to do, when it's by far the most stupid thing to exist, and considering humanity, that's quite a feat.  It's the whackjobs that THINK it's real, and relevant, that need to be closely watched.
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> Kurt
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