Yes, and FM isn't that far behind.  The FCC doesn't give a damn about 
content or broadcast quality any more.
Harvey
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: once in a lifetime?


> In my darker moments, I wonder how much the FCC cares about policing the 
> ham
> bands.  They seem far more concerned with money than with good engineering
> practices, or even good communication.  Witness the mess on the AM 
> broadcast
> band because of all the low-power stations that stay on all night just
> because they can.  Ironically, half of them can't even be heard locally
> because of the underlying QRM.  We have a station on 740 which you can't
> even hear at night because it's fighting with another station on Long
> Island, and another one up in Canada.  All of them are broadcasting 
> oldies,
> and all you can hear is the jumble of all three as they fade in and out. 
> I
> wonder how it is in less crowded parts of the country, like the Great
> Plains, or in Pennsylvania where you can drive for several hundred miles 
> and
> hear almost no AM activity in the daytime.
>
> Steve