[Milsurplus] Radio converters

[Richard]

Many years ago I used an FM converter in my car, and noted that quality 
was much better on FM than on AM, so AM reception quality was not 
limited by the AM receiver.

Richard, AA1P

On 2/19/21 10:19 AM, CL in NC via Milsurplus wrote:
> A recent reply mentioned the converters you could get years ago to adapt FM to your AM car radio.  My first truck was a 1973 Dodge D100.  After a while, I put an aftermarket AM/FM/8 track player in it and saved the AM only radio.  A few years ago, I got this wild hair to use the old AM radio and made up a stand for it, with a speaker and 12VDC supply, and it plays beautifully, even after being in a box for 40 years.  Though this was a 1973 radio, it only has 2 chips in it, a tuner chip and an audio chip plus a larger audio out transistor on the back, and was made in the US.  Well, I saw an ad Ebay for one of those FM converters, and thought that would be neat to add it on. That started the addiction to finding those convertors.   First I added the FM converter, then a 2 meter, then a 3 channel CB converter, then a Hi-Band VHF for police and weather radio, and then found a 23 channel CB converter, stacking them one on top of the other, making up metal plates to attach it to th
>   e one under it., and since they all had a pig tail antenna lead that was supposed to go to the radio, daisy chained all the antennas, with the whole stack hooked to a car replacement auto radio antenna.  The all work just fine, and can even slope detect FM on 2 meters and the police band  Still have one other project to get to, I picked up an old tube type, vibrator run car radio that I want to hook my Gonset Super Six up to, and went that route because I didn't want to have to build a DC supply to run it with my solid state stack of converters.  Oh well, keeps we off the streets chasing loose women.
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> Charlie, W4MEC in NC