[BC] AM Stereo

[Powell Way]

Scott is right about that. AM on most cars is nothing more than an  
afterthought. On the GM rental cars a friend of mine was using, the AM  
was just TORTURE to listen to. It was fairly sensitive, but the audio  
was quite restricted and the audio also wasn't clean. It was just worse  
than waterboarding to listen to even talk radio!  Now my friend has a  
2006 Outlander, and the AM is quite sensitive, but the audio is not  
conducive to listening to music. My 2000 Ford Taurus wagon with the  
whoop de doo stereo with CD player has AM stereo. Audio sounds DSPish  
narrow restricted, and an AM stereo signal does NOT open the bandwidth,  
and sensitivity on AM is poor. You have to be REALL?Y close to a  
station for the AM stereo light to light.  Now, on my 2006 Ranger I  
have I have a Kenwood  aftermarket radio and the AM bandwidth is better  
than a GM radio. But strong signals cover 100 kilohertz or more either  
side of center ......FM is grand.
I had a rental Dodge truck a few years ago.....and although it was  
sensitive, audio was restricted, and rough sounding like GM vehicles,  
and line noise from power lines "ruffled up" the radio over the entire  
band. It couldn't cope with the line noise.  The AM sections must cost  
a total of 49 cents to make anymore. And YES there are some halfway  
decent radios out there..... <AHEM!> if you can find "A RADIO"... !!  
The Sony ICF-38 is not bad. You have to listen through the headphone  
jack to tell. No, it's not a GE SuperRadio, but it had good  
sensitivity.

Powell

On Nov 26, 2010, at 2:13 AM, Scott Bailey wrote:

> Oh come on Bob, Delco AM Radios are nothing but a piece of crap!  In  
> my 2006
> Monte Carlo, the AM audio was so bad, it was almost like listening to  
> telephone
> audio!  Other car manufactures like Kia, are doing the same thing.  
> Make the AM
> as cheap as they can. I test drove a new Ford Mustang this year and AM  
> sounded
> great. I think Delco just doesn't care about AM, PERIOD! Delco will  
> never, ever
> make a decent AM Radio again. Besides, I buy Ford cars, not nasty GM  
> Trash!
>  Scott Bailey
> WMRO-AM, Gallatin, TN
>
>> So it's really unfair to accuse the receiver manufacturers of not
>> following through. At the time, at least Delco considerably increased
>> its radios' bandwidths as a result of the NRSC deliberations.
>> However, I don't think that this survived the upheaval that Delco
>> went through later.
>>
>
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