Well, sure I'd want to keep any radio that had diversity FM, a very useful feature that should have been standard a long time ago.
I can't argue at all that most of the FM sections sound just fine, and I have no issues with step tuning on FM.
I could probably even be happy with the AM being down 10 db at almost 3 khz, because that implies that the IF bandwidth
is roughly 6khz, the center tuning giving roughly 3khz audio. If I could side tune that to the clearer of the two side bands, I could choose then to listen such a station with audio ?-3000 hz or side tuned with audio from ?-6000 hz. It would be the users choice.
It would not require any extrra circuitry, just the ability to output finer resolution steps of voltage to the varactor tuning diodes and
oscillator circuits.
It would look odd to see a old tank car radio hanging under the dash of a Lexus.
One of the many reasons I drive a 1965 car is for the radio. Well, the radio's a '72.
The AM in it had one cap rolling off frequency response, which I lifted one leg of.
The IF is about 15 kc wide, but center tuning on medium strength signal is not a problem with adjacents.
It's not so good on strong adjacents, but the audio is something I wish I could share with others, who listen on muffleboxes.
I put in earplugs when I want my radio to sound like that.
Or I have the Collins 390 cranked in narrow bandwidths to hear something weak and distant.
Ford and Chrysler were some of the last good sounding AMs, and even last spring when I went to Jersey City, the 2006 Ford had
acceptably crisp AM for strong signals. It seemed narrower on weak signals, and may have had variable IF, or it could just be an AVC effect.
I can't argue at all that most of the FM sections sound just fine, and I have no issues with step tuning on FM.
I could probably even be happy with the AM being down 10 db at almost 3 khz, because that implies that the IF bandwidth
is roughly 6khz, the center tuning giving roughly 3khz audio. If I could side tune that to the clearer of the two side bands, I could choose then to listen such a station with audio ?-3000 hz or side tuned with audio from ?-6000 hz. It would be the users choice.
It would not require any extrra circuitry, just the ability to output finer resolution steps of voltage to the varactor tuning diodes and
oscillator circuits.
It would look odd to see a old tank car radio hanging under the dash of a Lexus.
One of the many reasons I drive a 1965 car is for the radio. Well, the radio's a '72.
The AM in it had one cap rolling off frequency response, which I lifted one leg of.
The IF is about 15 kc wide, but center tuning on medium strength signal is not a problem with adjacents.
It's not so good on strong adjacents, but the audio is something I wish I could share with others, who listen on muffleboxes.
I put in earplugs when I want my radio to sound like that.
Or I have the Collins 390 cranked in narrow bandwidths to hear something weak and distant.
Ford and Chrysler were some of the last good sounding AMs, and even last spring when I went to Jersey City, the 2006 Ford had
acceptably crisp AM for strong signals. It seemed narrower on weak signals, and may have had variable IF, or it could just be an AVC effect.
I'm still laughing.... The first thing I did on my wife's Jeep Cherokee Country I bought her in 1995 was to replace the radio as the AM section was almost riduculus, non existant and the worst radio I've ever heard from any auto manufacturer... it was so wide that all it picked up was noise unless you were right under the freakin' antenna!