Posted on 05/25/2023 7:14:53 PM PDT by Bonemaker
Fine.
Will the current antennae and cabling work with the AM band?
All radios are SDR these days, but the front-end is a silicon tuner.
It’s because AM radio is a conservative bastion. These assholes wanted to eliminate access to another medium they disagree with. That is it 100%.
I think Ford decided they didn’t want to be the next Bud Light...
Because they would make you pay for it.
Does the FCC have jurisdiction over car manufacturers?
The FCC did mandate, many decades ago, that TV manufacturers provide TV sets with equivalent VHF and UHF dials.
The early sets had clicky VHF dials, but smooth turning UHF dials (like radios). UHF stations complained that TV viewers preferred clicky dials, so smooth dials put UHF stations at a disadvantage.
When I was very young, my parents had an old black & white TV set with smooth turning UHF dials.
Given that road warnings are on the AM bands and basic attack warnings are as well, I would say they do.
Ford decides it won’t kill AM radio after all
05/24/2023 10:55:54 AM PDT · by ShadowAce · 23 replies
The Verge ^ | 23 May 2023 | Andrew J. Hawkins
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4155616/posts
Ford decides to keep AM radio on 2024 models, will restore AM on two electric vehicles from 2023
05/23/2023 9:13:50 AM PDT · by conservative98 · 42 replies
AP ^ | May 23, 2023 GMT 1 of 2 | TOM KRISHER and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4155312/posts
I’m trying to remember, UHF was about 13-45
VHF was 2-12.
I had to look up the 83, but I knew it was way more than 45. When I lived in NYC in the early 1980s, I watched wrestling on 9 and 47, and music video programming that was simulcast on channels 67 & 68. They later changed their format to home shopping.
Thats cool.
I had 4 stations. All of them VHF. 2,6,8 and 10.
2 was PBS. the others were the majors.
I was much better off back then. :^)
You realize that the reason they wanted to get AM radio out of the carts was to shut down talk radio, right?
I used to get WLS Chicago, WOWO Ft. Wayne, Indiana and occasionally a Detroit station on a cheap AM radio where I lived in Baltimore, usually at night when the skies were clear. Loved it.
Seven VHF stations -- the three major networks, three indies, and a PBS. I got to see a lot of TV show reruns and old movies.
And nine UHF stations (five educational or PBS, two Spanish language, and the music video/home shopping ones): 21, 25, 31, 41, 47, 50, 58, 67, 68.
Who cares. I will never purchase a car drom woke ford.
Exactly. Just like what Tesla does. If you buy a used Tesla, and the previous owner paid for certain options, the options would be disabled for the new owner unless that person paid again. BMW does it too, and no doubt other makers will be doing it if they don't already.
America and the world ‘was’ defined by industry and business where competition would always try to one up on the other guy to try to attract future customers, give something new the other guy wasn’t doing.
Now, business is looking to cut out something, hoping the customer base doesn’t notice or will tolerate. Then the competition thinks they can get away with the cut or reduction in service and so on.
Others follow the horrible lead that govt has been doing, add surcharges to bills. Items that used to be considered ‘cost of doing business’ — now all billed separately, some even bundled into one line ‘taxes and fees’
all this satan’s work - corruption and cheating at every level.
The wiki page has several block diagrams. The “silicon tuner” to which you refer is a bandpass filter and RF amplifier. The output of the RF amp goes to a AD converter and from there, it’s digital.
Sufficient whining. They decided it would be cheaper to let AM die first.
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