[saurik]

I don't understand what is so wrong with the transmission quality in that MP3. The issues I hear sound like they are simply due to trying to transmit from an extremely noisy environment (the cockpit of an airplane); they are mitigating the pilot's voice being entirely drowned in the background noise by placing the microphone right next to their mouth, but that then causes the sound of their breath to be extremely noticeable. I am not sure how to fix these issues but they don't seem to have anything to do with the usage of AM radio.

[amenghra]

In helicopters/tanks, some people wear a sensor around their neck which picks up vocal cord vibrations without pickup any breathing or external sound.

[wfunction]

I wasn't complaining about the transmission quality, I was just trying to understand the parent comment. The person who complained about the former was someone else.

[saurik]

Sorry; I misunderstood (and to be honest even after my tenth reread am still having a difficult time parsing...) the end of your comment about the "issue" :(.

[wfunction]

OK, I'll clarify. Someone suggested non-AM transmission has problems X/Y/Z; I suggested that I expect non-AM transmission has overcome problems X/Y/Z in the military, and therefore I'm not convinced this is the real issue preventing non-AM communication. I was not discussing whether we or not we need non-AM communication in the first place.