On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 13:20:03 GMT, "Flounder" wrote
this crap:

No, it's less attenuation in its normal mode of propagation. It has to do
with the decompression of the magnetosphere on the side of the earth away
from the sun..

Actually it's the ionosphere,

Almost all AM radio stations transmit in the vertical polarization, the
antenna beam launch angle is low, it's difficult to get skip.

Were we talking about commercial AM radio? I thought we were talking
about SSB.




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