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From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: AM Reception
Message-ID: <1991May13.154141.3583@mccc.edu>
Date: 13 May 91 15:41:41 GMT
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In article <1991May9.163507.406@keinstr.uucp> chaplin@keinstr.uucp (chaplin) writes:
=In article <1991May7.191543.15285@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
=>AM reception of distant stations with the engine running is
=>horrible!  More static than ....!  This never occurred with the Toyota radio.
=>
=>Radio man says that even his $1000 Blaupunkt has the same AM front end
=>(I guess he means front end design?) as the more moderately priced Sony,
=>and that the Toyota radio is one in a million.
=>
=>How can I tell if he's right or not?  Is there a reasonable solution to
=>getting her a tape player and decent AM reception?
=
=I'm just guessing that the characteristic of the static varies with the
=engine speed, right?

Sometimes.  Mostly, it's just fairly loud static, almost like the
whitenoise generators that are used to prevent eavesdropping.

Pete
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