No such thing as a lifetime contract for any product. There's another thread on these boards about Quadraphonic radio from the 70s. Lots of obsolete products in attics.
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Has WBZ-AM Finally Dumped IBOC For Good?!?
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No such thing as a lifetime contract for any product. There's another thread on these boards about Quadraphonic radio from the 70s. Lots of obsolete products in attics.
I have a vintage 1999 WebTV doorstop in a closet.
In this, thou hast spoken rightly.
I know nowradiguy lives on the NH border.....so that answers that.
Where do you live that the sub-channels cut in and out?
I've got an AM stereo car radio converter from the '80s. It goes inline of your antenna cord and broadcasts AM stereo stations into your FM car stereo. Like the opposite of the FM car converters from the early '70s that broadcast FM (mono) into your AM car radio.
The only problem with it is the output frequency is unstable and drifts up and down your FM dial depending on the temperature inside the car.
You can always dub the audio from your 8-track to your Betamax... We ran AM stereo for a time, on WLYN.
We pulled the plug on it years ago. Nobody seemed to have really noticed...
We pulled the plug on it years ago. Nobody seemed to have really noticed...
That's the Metrosound AMS-400: http://www.amstereo.org/met.htm
It was originally marketed in the Los Angeles area in 1985, where there were an almost equal number of stations using the C-Quam and Kahn/Hazeltine systems, so it seemed like a good idea to introduce an add-on AM Stereo tuner for your car that could support all of the AM Stereo systems in use at the time.
But apparently it wasn't such a good idea, because in the late '90s a friend of mine was offered the opportunity to buy a pallet load of several thousand of them that remained unsold, still in their original boxes, never opened or used! I think he negotiated to buy 50 of them and then resold them to AM Stereo enthusiasts. I have no idea what happened to all the rest of them...
With some poking around inside, you can find the points in the circuitry to tap off line-level audio outputs, bypassing the FM modulator. The Metrosound is darn good for receiving mono AM, too, because it's very wideband and has extremely good sensitivity.
No I don't really bother using the HD tuner for FM. Analog FM vs HD FM - really very little difference so HD to me for FM is not a big deal. I have a JVC add on HD tuner in a Ford with a Mach Audio system. The FM and AM sound great without HD (AM depending on how much the station is allowing bandwidth wise toward 10khz). It has AM stereo decoding and it sounds amazing on WJIB. HD sub channels - you don't need to be on the NH border - just drive on on the southeast expressway between Braintree and Boston and they cut out frequently. I was contemplating replacing the radio in my other car with an HD tuner radio but I'm not going to bother now. I may hunt around and try to find a factory radio with AM Stereo to put in instead for WJIB. The JVC add on tuner does decode c-quam but the bandwidth in analog mode is poor. Most HD radios can decode AM Stereo but tend to have the same narrow bandwidth.
Speaking of WBZ, heard Morgan White Jr mention they're still doing "WBZ Flashbacks" Sun 9-mid with Glick and "some other hosts to come".
http://raccoonradio.freehostia.com/Air/WBZbit.mp3
A minute or so from WBZ Boston in 1978--rec. from Florida?--from a friend. Paul Benzaquin...and a temp. given in both Celsius and Fahrenheit, Celsius first. "Take ten and learn the Metric way..."?
http://raccoonradio.freehostia.com/Air/WBZbit.mp3
A minute or so from WBZ Boston in 1978--rec. from Florida?--from a friend. Paul Benzaquin...and a temp. given in both Celsius and Fahrenheit, Celsius first. "Take ten and learn the Metric way..."?
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