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1986 FM Stereo & AM Stereo station directory

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kevtronics

From the Delco ETR 2000 Series radio manual that came with your shiny new General Motors vehicle in 1986. The FM Stereo listing was from the FM Atlas, while the AM Stereo listing was maybe supplied by Motorola? A lot of the stations have a * next to them, but it doesn't indicate what that means. I also noticed a brief mention (on page 13) that their radios would also receive the Harris AM Stereo system, which by then had switched their pilot tone to 25 Hz to make it compatible with C-Quam receivers.

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kevtronics said:
From the Delco ETR 2000 Series radio manual that came with your shiny new General Motors vehicle in 1986. The FM Stereo listing was from the FM Atlas, while the AM Stereo listing was maybe supplied by Motorola? A lot of the stations have a * next to them, but it doesn't indicate what that means. I also noticed a brief mention (on page 13) that their radios would also receive the Harris AM Stereo system, which by then had switched their pilot tone to 25 Hz to make it compatible with C-Quam receivers.
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I downloaded it and will add it to the "station lists and logs" on WorldRadioHistory. Nice find!
 
PTBoardOp93 said:
The * is for Noncommercial & Educational stations. See note at the bottom of page 16.
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That applies to the FM listing, but not the AM listing. I have a 1985 listing of AM Stereo stations and it uses a * to indicate which stations were using a Delta exciter instead of Motorola's own. Maybe Delco just copied that verbatim.
 
This manual makes is seem like FM stereo was an exciting new thing in 1986. Wasn't it pretty standard by then? I was surprised to see no AM stereo stations listed in NYC. Perhaps incorrect? If I recall correctly WNBC was an early adopter (but I could be wrong about that).
 
kevtronics said:
There were AM Stereo stations in NYC, but they were all using the Kahn system back then, not C-Quam, since it was Leonard Kahn's home turf.
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Kahn did a huge job of selling his systems to New York City area engineers. In one case, he so convinced an engineer that the PowerSide was a marvelous device that, despite the corporate engineer and a certain corporate VP having it disconnected, as soon as either left town the PowerSide returned. It took some radical surgery on the device to make it stay offline.
 
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