May 29- Music

Isn't the radio fun? You can listen to it in the car, outside, or anywhere with plugs or batteries. You can hear the Sox game, or any random assortment of musical goodness. And supposedly, AM and FM attempt to de-randomify the assortment, but in recent years, as you probably have noticed, the line has become blurred. Back in the good ole days, shows were allotted AM or FM according to what they were, like music on FM and talk on AM, but as you have undoubtedly noticed, there is plenty of talk on FM, and all sorts of music on AM. And why does this matter, you may be asking yourself (for good reason!) What could possibly be the difference a weary reader might ask. Well, there is a difference! So, I ask: What is the difference between AM and FM? (Besides the channel numbers, that would be cheap!)







The difference is how their frequencies are altered. With AM, the strength of the signal is changed with the sound information. FM's frequency is varied, and is less susceptible to static. Since I did a terrible job at explainging that, for more info visit: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/radio/radiorelayer.html