Why don't voice radio communications use FM?

Mxsmanic wrote:
Switching from AM to FM doesn't involve incompatibilities. You can
run both in parallel indefinitely, providing identical services (just
as some commercial radio stations have broadcasts on both AM and FM
simultaneously). Introducing FM doesn't obsolete any of the AM
equipment.

Regarding your argument in the paragraph above and the one below...

Adding all sorts of digital gadgets is quite a different matter. Now
you are adding functionality that will be available only to the
FM/digital community. This introduces potential safety and usability
issues. Stacking transmissions digitally isn't going to work when the
same transmissions must be mirrored on analog AM--and they have to be
if you want to maintain safety and keep controller workload
reasonable.

....honestly don't make any sense to me. In the first paragraph you see no
problem with two transmitters being used to transmit the same thing using
different frequencies and different modulation techniques, and in the
second paragraph you do. I think you could turn the first paragraph into
the second or vice-versa with appropriate special pleading - which is why
I'm confused about why you find a switch from AM to FM a better transition
than any other transition. I guess I just don't see what you see.

Jim Logajan writes:

...honestly don't make any sense to me. In the first paragraph you see no
problem with two transmitters being used to transmit the same thing using
different frequencies and different modulation techniques, and in the
second paragraph you do.

The second instance involves additional or different information being
transmitted over one channel, but not the other. The first instance
involves only a reduction of noise; the information content is the
same in both channels.

I think you could turn the first paragraph into
the second or vice-versa with appropriate special pleading - which is why
I'm confused about why you find a switch from AM to FM a better transition
than any other transition. I guess I just don't see what you see.

I don't know if it's better than any other transition; I just think
that something should be done to improve the archaic system that
exists now.

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