How does a song fly through the air into your radio?
Static crackles on a car's AM station in a thunderstorm while FM stays crisp.
Talk about it
- Before we test it, guess: when a storm crackles the radio, which station gets wrecked — the one hiding the song in the wave's height, or the one hiding it in the spacing?
- Why might a tiny faraway town pick an AM station even though it crackles more?
- Where else have you heard a radio drop into static — a tunnel, a garage, a storm?