Damned nice idea to know that I'm not the only old crabby b***ard around!!
I do have a digital radio at the office and the AM digital sounds 
good and is, honestly easier to understand.  My only AM radio 
interest is WBBM; the rest is talk and yelling former jocks on the 
SCR and AM1000 (ESPN).  And somehow my office is a F M dead 
zone.  Not nearly enough signal except for one religious station, 
which broadcasts two HD channels plus the primary and our local 
community college station which features jazz, current not Dixieland, 
and it all sounds the same!!  (Whioops!!! crabby again)!!
I'm still waiting for promised antenna help Tom.  Have the PVC in 
place through the office wall, through the crawl space and to the 
outside but no one has shown up for the shooting of the line in to 
the trees to drag up the antenna.  And you can't get pissed off at 
people who are giving you their time can you, but boy I wish they'd 
hurry!!!  And either the Windom or the Mystery antenna will go 
up.  Depends on tree configuration I think.  I'd love to have both of 
them up, but beggars can't be choosers!!
Is Sue teaching out there?  Joanna has gotten a job with our local 
Park District who runs a Kindergarten Enhancement program to 
suplement the half day kindergarten program in our 
village.  Thirty-six hours per weekk four days at not too good wages 
and no benefits, but it is real teaching and will look good on a 
resume.  She will hopefully be called to sub. on Mondays and is 
working as the morning manager on Sundays at a local restaurant so 
she's getting by.  Still living with us and helping out so we're not 
making a big deal of room and board.  And in fact we'd kind of miss 
her if she moved away!!
Our oldest guy is coming by to replace a couple of outlets in a half 
hour or so and I had better find the replacement parts before he gets 
here.  I'd do it myself but it is too damned hard to chase down the 
appropriate circuit breakers!!  And Chris just does it with the 
circuit live!!  And I won't intentionally ever do that!!
PatAt 12:05 PM 9/13/2009, you wrote:
>No, not at all, Pat.
>
>I feel the same way, and I can't for the life of me figure out why many A M
>stations have gone to the digital format.  I just don't know what's to gain
>from it, and the broader frequency span for digital stations hardly
>represents efficient use of the broadcast spectrum, in my opinion.
>
>Are we getting old and crabby?  Well, maybe, but at least I know I have
>company!
>
>73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ