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1) If information was transmitted at audio frequencies, then you would actually hear the signal. This would be identical to a speaker playing a song on your stereo.

2) Audio frequencies, in the world of radio frequencies, are long wave-length, low energy signals that can't travel long distances. Again, that's why you can only hear someone's stereo from within eyesight of the system. Human ears can detect from about 3Hz up to around 20KHz (some better than others).

3) True radio frequencies start at in the 100Khz range. This is your most basic radio that uses amplitude modulation (aka AM radio). Many people today that listen to the radio listen to frequency modulated (FM) stations. The difference between AM and FM is beyond the scope of the answer to this question. Being a higher frequency, the signals have more energy and can travel farther distances than audible frequencies.

4) Audible frequencies (sounds the human ear can pick up) can only "transmit" amplitude (loudness or volume) and frequency (high or low pitch). However, higher frequencies, such as those used for radio, can carry much more information than the volume and pitch of a signal. This is a direct result of radio frequencies being harmonics (integer multiples) of audible signals. For instance, if a radio signal has a frequency 20 times higher than the audio signal it is transmitting, then that radio signal can not only carry the audio signal, it can also carry other information, such as information about the broadcast station. A radio signal can "encode" information within the signal allowing more information to be carried than just the audio signal itself.

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