Posted on 01/28/2024 3:10:41 AM PST by NautiNurse
There certainly should be better spectrum protection and less bleed from random technology. BUT that’s no reason to force car manufacturers to keep radios that aren’t used.
AM radio is receivable by the very simplest equipment,soesn”t require a trackaing internet connextion. It can also be generated by rather simple equioment.
Too many people think only the latest is of any worth. Like 16 year old voting which ignores the value of experience and maturity.
Single sideband and FM are in use but many still use AM 80 meters has a them using it.
Less than $14 per vehicle to suppress unwanted interference at the source(car) is so cheap as to be a non-issue compared to other government mandates on cars.Such as the “kill switch” ,proposed GPS speed control,etc.
$14 per vehicle x how many vehicles? And for what. My car is almost 10 years old and I’ve never turned on the radio, any frequency. I have loaded thumb drives with music.
Meanwhile if you really want AM in your car here’s your $10 solution: https://www.amazon.com/J-166-Transistor-Excellent-Reception-PRUNUS/dp/B09KBX1BHF/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2FD1MC4I79H1P&keywords=am%2Bradio&qid=1706461837&sprefix=%2Caps%2C428&sr=8-4&th=1
So you can have radio if you want for less than you want me to HAVE TO pay for radio I will use.
Congress should step out. It’s just none of their business.
I an NOT opposed to ham AM just the know the reality is MOST are on SSB. All too many years ago I listened with a Lafayette 4 bans portable to interesting AM operators on commercial broadcast,marine, and ham bands
The microprocessor radiated garbage interferes with ALL types.
“Is there ANYTHING left on AM radio at all?”
News and sports.
I listen to neither.
But there is a legitimate civil defense/FEMA use for AM radio and it should be preserved.
No,the $14 is so YOUR car won”t interfere with MY radio.
“Car Industry Seeks to Crush AM Radio”
Who cares, with Rush gone.
” legitimate civil defense/FEMA use for AM radio”
So we all have to go to our cars to get defense/FEMA information? I haven’t had an AM or FM radio in my house for decades. How many people have an AM radio in their houses these days? If they do, it’s probably sitting in a box in the basement covered with dust.
“Who cares, with Rush gone.”
That’s true. I wish he had taken better care of himself out of respect for his audience. The opioids. The smoking. So sad. I still am programmed to wait for noon as I’d done for decades, and then major letdown.
My wife bought a car back in 2012. She chose it, I paid for it.
I have it today and still do not know how to operate the radio!
When moving my Sister-in-law 14 years ago, I drove the moving truck with a modern radio. More buttons than I can shake a stick at! So I never listened to it as I did not want to get distracted while driving.
Yes, I agree.
He does try to make some sense of things, and the other guys keep him in check a bit, so I still find it entertaining.
I live in Florida now, so I like to keep up with the GL perspective on what’s happened to MN/MSP. I still spend summers up there.
“They” are trying to remove one of the last media formats
we have to get news on.They’re closing the net...
I have, as all smart people do, a battery powered AM/FM/Weather Band radio. In my house.
With spare batteries.
I keep a small battery operated radio at home for power outages—usually due to winter ice storms, occasionally due to tropical storms, heavy winds.
I probably have to use it maybe once a year—but it comes in handy at those times.
(Location: northern CT)
You should try our new globull warming winters. It’s 40 out.
We do.
Even though I'm in my 60s now, the last time I tuned into an AM station was about 20 years ago, when I lived in the Boston area and tuned in to the mighty WRKO 680 to hear the likes of Howie Carr and Rush Limbaugh.
“Engineers aren’t cheap either.”
True, Ive practically priced myself out of a great livelihood!
I dont consult much in broadcasting, but your point is valid.
There was a time when radio/tv marketing was the center of the center of the universe. But now, there are so many ways to slice and dice demographics that most broadcasters are on 2nd and third restructurings. The biggest assets AM radio has is the land that used to be on the outskirts of town. Many have sold out. Many will follow.
TV broadcast in my market would be broke if not for so many personal injury lawyers.
Unless they are allowed to innovate, there is a hard road ahead for broadcasting, because their product is stale and depreciating rapidly.
But internet services are not much better. Youtube is all but unusable. Im guessing Im not the only one who is tired of being pitched things I will never even think of buying.
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