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There are at least four hundred reasons.

Here are two of them:

#1). If two (or 20) stations in your city all broadcast at audio frequencies,

then you have to listen to them all at the same time, because you have

no way to separate them.

#2). In order for an antenna ... transmitting or receiving .. to do a halfway decent

job, it has to be at least as long as 1/4 wavelength of the signal it's working with.

The shortest radio signal at an audio frequency ... 20 KHz ... is about 9,320 miles long.

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