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		hinkley on Oct 6, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars What’s the total bandwidth of the AM band? Does it make sense to reclaim it for wide area wireless networking?

pfdietz on Oct 6, 2024 | [–]

The width of the AM radio band in the US is just a shade over 1 MHz, so there's not much room.

Mr-Frog on Oct 6, 2024 | [–]

It's about 1MHz. Signals can propagate pretty far due to ionospheric interactions, which could be a positive or negative effect depending on your intentions.

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