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General Category => Huh? => Topic started by: ThaDood on July 17, 2022, 1831 UTC

Title: Why Are Some Automakers Ditching AM Radio? Because they suck!
Post by: ThaDood on July 17, 2022, 1831 UTC
Yeah, my $0.02 worth right off the bat. If you think EV cars are bad, try diesel locomotives, or any metro rail vehicle that runs off of the 600VDC, 800A, third rail. Those blow away from DC to light of RFI. Oh yeah... Not just them, but ever hear why smart phones don't offer OTA AM, but just FM? Same deal, RFI spectrum-wide. BTW, as if EV didn't cost too much as it is, but if they were to implement RF filtering and shielding, that would just raise-up the cost of them even more so.  https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/why-are-some-automakers-ditching-am-radio
BTW, SWL'ing 1st lead me to this, so again, I ripped from them.
Title: Re: Why Are Some Automakers Ditching AM Radio? Because they suck!
Post by: Pigmeat on July 28, 2022, 1908 UTC
It's been in the works for about half a decade.