FM is line of sight…why you’d lose reception in tunnels and such.Yes, you are right. AM frequencies travel farther because of longer wavelength.
FM is line of sight…why you’d lose reception in tunnels and such.
AM output can readily skip off the ionosphere at night, giving the potential for their broadcast to travel hundreds upon hundreds of miles. Used to get Chicago and some Mexican in GA at night.
In daytime, AM distance is limited to their ground wave. The ionosphere absorbs most of what hits it.
But nighttime….you can hear some of the strangest things on AM.
Been a long time, but 20 years ago I drove all over the place where AM was the only option. At least back then it wasn't all crazy until the night. At night it was nothing but conspiracy shit. Like lizard people conspiracy shit. I used to enjoy getting the harvest updates, though.My good buddy who has driven around this country many times by now said if you put on the AM radio on in the south or in texas or what not, pretty much when you get outside of a big city's limits, shit gets reallly fucking scary really fucking fast on AM radio. Like frightening if you are a somewhat rational and decent human being that is.
It costs a lot more than that especially as the transition to electric vehicles becomes more prevalent. Electric vehicles require more shielding than traditional internal combustion engines because of the interference the electric motors have with the AM bands.What are they going to save a whole $.15 a radio. Seriously.
Move the power controller and shield it. Corvette figure out how to shield ignition noise.It costs a lot more than that especially as the transition to electric vehicles becomes more prevalent. Electric vehicles require more shielding than traditional internal combustion engines because of the interference the electric motors have with the AM bands.
One of the major reasons Ford dropped it on the 2023 Mustang Mach-E is because of the amount of complaints they received about reception quality on the 2021 and 2022 models. They later back peddled and issued an over the air software update to add the AM bands back into the 2023 model year but I can tell you from experience I can see why they wanted to not have it.
Does the ignition noise on a Corvette produce the same amount of interference as a vehicle with 2, 3, or even 4 electric motors does?Move the power controller and shield it. Corvette figure out how to shield ignition noise.
And that's it -- for me! My old Trooper is my only escape! Today, I drove down to the truck farm to buy vegetables, swung by the grocery deli for some fried chicken, and took the long way home for today's entertainment -- a John Coltrane album.I haven't turned on a car radio in nearly 20 years. I don't have any interest in "talk radio", listening to idiot DJs blithering, or annoying advertising. Which is almost 100% of the broadcasting in my area.
Music would be nice. Or some kind of news I was actually interested in. Nah, I'll just zone out in peace. I'm done with radio.
Uh huh. And who do you think is buying the bulk F-150 trucks? City dwellers, in the liberal coastal states? Or people in the "fly over" states??There's nothing there but talk radio, mostly fundamentalist christian, or right wing wacko/conspiracy/nutjob stuff.