What would the radio sound like?

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A century and a half after the end, what would the radio sound like? Assuming you were in and around the Great Lakes region of North America and you used your Morrow equipment to tune into the AM and FM radio bands, what would you hear?

Some of the surviving groups in the 4th edition game would have radio technology and perhaps have even scavenged old music from the Time Before. How far could radio towers or broadcasters throw a signal in the AM/FM bands? Would they even use these bands or would they use something else, because of power requirements?

I'm also not clear on what Morrow teams would hear on their own Project equipment when tuning in to Morrow channels. How far can their equipment broadcast? Would there be any sort of automated "stand by and continue monitoring" signal from regional or divisional Morrow Project bases?

In the game I've just started to run the PCs are members of a Medical & Civil Recovery team. They have awoken to find that of the 12 members on the team only 5 have survived. Their hibersleep containers started the wake-up process automatically because their bolt-hole's power levels fell into critical, so they have not been contacted by any Morrow base. Their computer is mostly fried, too, having been sabotaged with a virus.

After scouting the region around their bolt-hole they've found themselves some survivors: descendants of the Mennonite and Amish of southwestern Ontario, Canada, near Waterloo. Trade exists between these farmers and a more technologically advanced group known as the Kingdom of Gwellip. The survivors of the Six Nations natives (Iroquois, etc.) have a territory and there was mention by the Amish of a group called Bateliers, or Lakers, who ply the "big waters" and live in the Republic of Arcadia, far away to the north.