[Hallicrafters] Re: BC-Band AM Antenna [Was: An AM antenna]

[Ian]

My experience has been that just about all car radios are very lousy on the
AM band.  A trend that seemed to occur about the time that transistorized
car radios became the rule rather than the exception and as over the years
most programming was duplicated on FM or moved to FM leaving only talk radio
and religious broadcasters and in this are Spanish and Vietnamese language
programming on AM.  Many of them are really decent FM radios with AM as a
low cost after thought.  Often the radios didn't even have an RF stage.

I think if you really want decent AM reception you have to look at some of
the costly foreign automobile radios made for use in Europe where there is
decent programming on the MW and LW bands.  I've seen some that looked
decent and that had mounting kits for most cars.  Do some Google searching
and you may find something of interest.  There are also some pretty decent
prices if you are willing to do things like order from a Saudi Arabia
distributor and have it shipped to this company.

I've never found a standard car radio as sensitive and selective as the
AM/SW radio that I found in a junk yard in a 1940 era Chevy and put it in my
1947 Chevy in the mid 1950s.  Believe it or not it appeared to be a stock
Chevy radio and was probably one that you had to order when you ordered your
car from the factory.

Ian, K6SDE
 

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I would really like to enhance BC-band reception.

Any thoughts and/or experiences?