Re: WPTR in stereo

[John Mullaney <john@minutemancomm.com>]

I believe all Ford factory radios still have AM stereo. My 97 Ford Explorer has it
and the new ones use the same make of factory radios.  Ford Radios are made by
Visteon  http://www.visteon.com . You can buy them aftermarket from
http://www.radiosandmore.com/ .

Chris wrote:

> AM stereo has (to my knowledge) completely disappeared from both factory and
> aftermarket car stereo in the US.  As for consumer home-based receivers, it has
> also completely disappeared apart from a very tiny gray market (see
> http://www.stereoam.com for a depressingly illiterate example of a fast-fading
> phenomenon.)  The only available consumer AM stereo radio for the US market
> that I am aware of is the $36.95-list Sony SRF-42 analog-tuning AM/FM Walkman.
> http://www.sel.sony.com/SEL/consumer/ss5/portable/walkmanrtmstereos/walkmanrtmr
> adio-only/srf-42.shtml
>
> To quote a poster to the broadcast.net web board a couple of years ago, Nuff
> said.
>
> It should go without saying that I'd be delighted to be proven wrong on any of
> the above points.
>
> Take care,
> Chris, who is no Rhodes scholar himself, but gimme a break...
>
> "It certainly improves the sound of AM but now we need something done about the
> programming. Instead of just sucking it sucks in stereo."--a poster to the
> broadcast.net web board in 1997