[BC] AM Stereo Radios

Rich Wood richwood at pobox.com
Mon Nov 29 07:27:27 CST 2010


------ At 09:28 PM 11/28/2010, Dave Hultsman wrote: -------

>Something similar on that Delco radio which is also on my present 
>2003 Delco/Bose  (No AM Stereo) was the FM stereo blending and 
>locking the stereo pilot lite on.  The older FM stereo radios had a 
>stereo-mono switch you could switch to mono and not lose any high 
>frequencies when the pilot was out of range.   But no they just lock 
>the Stereo light on and reduce the FM bandwidth to reduce the white noise.

There was a rumor that Delco did the same with C-Quam. The stereo 
dropped so often that there was either a delay in the stereo light 
circuit or it was always on. The stereo image collapsed but the light was on.

Rich 



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