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Each station transmits at a different frequency, and radios are very good at separating

signals with different frequencies.

Radios are specially designed to do that, because manufacturers assume that most

listeners prefer to hear only one station at a time. That's also the reason that the

FCC never licenses more than one station on the same frequency in the same city.

But if you want to hear them all at the same time, it wouldn't be too difficult at all to

build a radio that could do that for you. You could have a ball and knock yourself out.

Just think of the time you could save!

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