“...”WiFi, cell phone service, opening and closing garage doors, police, fire or aviation channels …” And he doesn’t bemoan that future. “It would be a better use for the frequency.”
Hmmmm, with just a tad less than 1 MHz available in the AM band, won’t be that much use for those frequencies. Of course, considering the source of this article, I didn’t expect much technical expertise.
Yea, that’s what I thought, too.
Want to know something really funny?
Back when commercial radio started, hams had access to what is now the AM band - and frequencies below.
When the US Navy (who was the first federal agency given control of the airwaves) decided that only medium and low frequencies were of use, the Navy took control of about 2MHz and below, and gave everything else to hams.
Sadly, we hams then went on to show the government bureaucrats just how useful the higher frequencies were, and they came back for them.