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Why AM radio travels farther after dark

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Due to entirely bizarre atmospheric physics, the Earth's ionosphere changes significantly when the sun goes down, causing older amplitude modulation waves to violently bounce across continents. This perfectly explains why your rusty car stereo can somehow clearly pick up a chaotic farm report from four states away at three in the morning.

Why AM radio travels farther after dark
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