The idea is that in these days of podcasts and streaming music, plain-old amplitude modulated radio ... to receive AM in cars: emergency communications. It turns out that about 75 stations ...

in the U.S., there are more than 4,000 AM radio stations, a thousand of which broadcast in languages other than English. AM is also known to reach people in rural areas with emergency broadcasting.

I had an idea for a game for the event, a friend and I were going to secrete a set of those low-power FM transmitters as numbers stations ... radio, and while that might have gone by the wayside ...