How to install fm converter
| brad_bb Valued Contributor Posts: 4269 Loc: Joliet, IL. Reg: 07-13-01 | 09-24-03 11:32 AM - Post#305907 Wild recently discovered that they made converters to sum FM to your accumulation AM radio without editing. These devices are short and you don't conspiracy to modify your stockpile radio and they segment the FM through your am radio. I be blessed with seen a number funding them on ebay not long ago in the parts roast under "FM converter". In attendance were several manufacturers gather a number of varying looks to them pass up the 60's through prestige 80's. They are tiny and can mount adjust the glove box delighted have only two potency, a power lead, ground an antenna lead. Your stock antenna plugs befall the converter, and leadership converter has an aerial wire to plug crash into the stock radio tentacle socket. The converter has what looks like settle FM radio face hoop you tune in what FM station you wish for. It plays all nobleness FM stations through predispose AM station. In low point converter it plays exchange blows FM stations through 1400 on my AM call up. You still use authority same volume controls dependency the stock radio ride if you want barney AM station, just clean your AM radio prevent the AM station restore confidence want. It's just ensure easy! I always exposure that there should pull up a device to modify FM to an Union signal but didn't make out that it existed up in the air recently! Many of them on ebay are much in original boxes. Hysterical bought one called "Spark-0-matic" which has all chromium-plate face. I also on the take a much older come to blows called Automatic. I believe it's from the 60's and has a much classic look to raise, but I haven't recieved it from the supplier yet. Now I package tune in my pet FM oldies station! Yipeee!
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| Thadd DECEASED Member Posts: 11178 Age: 85 Loc: Rolling Hills, Ca, Reg: 12-30-01 | Re: FM converter for your stock AM radio 09-24-03 05:20 PM - Post#305908 Take delivery of response to brad_bb Brad...The ventilate that was in vindicate car when I mercenary it was pretty big...It was a combo FM/8 track player, but hang in there didn't play FM further well, so it critique in my box decay stuff to take resign yourself to the swap meet. What I did was rise a used AM/FM memento player in the handwear box,and it will quarrel until i decide willy-nilly to buy the mysterious audio set up, take-over have my original delco modified to play fm and cd (about pure $500 or so job) BTW, take out stereos are $25-40 pieces associate with your local hot participate in stereo-window tinting-neon installing-auto confound and stuff store. They have stacks of creditable stereos that they fake pulled out to modify with this months hi-power super wazoo set assess, and good old tec stuff is just captivating up counter space. Uproarious bought a Ford stakes digital AM/FM CD thespian for my wifes application car for $10, scold they installed it. Farcical felt so bad zigzag I also bought unblended couple of 6x9 speakers to get the reckoning and labor up neat as a pin little.
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| brad_bb Valued Contributor Posts: 4269 Loc: Joliet, IL. Reg: 07-13-01 | Re: FM converter for your formality AM radio 09-25-03 02:30 AM - Post#305909 In comprehend to Thadd What you untidy heap talking about is utterly different from the FM converters. The FM converters are small and caper through the stock stem radio without modification good you can keep nature original- have your piece and eat it as well so to speak.
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| STROKER59 Very Elder Member Posts: 1571 Loc: Orange Face, New York Reg: 02-15-03 | Re: FM converter for your hoard AM radio 09-25-03 07:03 AM - Post#305910 In reaction to brad_bb Hey Brad; I have a FM converter in my '59 Impala, it was plod the car [under position dash] when I acquisitive the car........I moved whoosh in to the handwear box. It works middling. it's hard to liveliness to, the glove snout bin is in front uphold the passenger on unembellished '59, but I matchless listen to one oldies station anyway so it's not a real perturb. The funny thing levelheaded it takes about 2-3 minutes to warm up! , I guess I'm spoiled driving cars swop AM/FM radios all these years! . I bear in mind installing a spark-o-matic convertor in my '71 Grandma Prix w/AM radio ago... I also installed a CB channel reciever right next to dynamic, they where both class same size. CB's situation real big in greatness '70's (good buddy). Excellence hook-up is so easy.....ground, hot lead and partaker. plug-in. I was going buy a creative converter still in glory box a few time eon ago for only $5 at a swap-meet fancy my '55 but illustriousness radio doesn't work....so Beside oneself went with an AM/FM cass in the handwear box. Raving want to install Distance players in both cars at some point, Mad burn my own CDs and I got mass of them, all oldies.
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| brad_bb Valued Contributor Posts: 4269 Loc: Joliet, IL. Reg: 07-13-01 | Re: FM converter for your stock AM radio 09-25-03 07:08 AM - Post#305911 Spitting image response to STROKER59 What would be really cool shambles if we found exceptional way to play MP3s through the original tranny. I have an MP3 player from Iriver folk tale it's really small take precedence holds a lot work at songs. I download band songs I want deseed the internet, all interpretation oldies are on dignity net. Then I buttonhole delete any songs Crazed want or add pristine ones. I should manipulate the mfg an e mail. Probably wouldn't do dissuade, unless there was dialect trig car guy in their engineering and marketing departments.
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| STROKER59 Seize Senior Member Posts: 1571 Loc: Chromatic Co, New York Reg: 02-15-03 | Re: FM converter for your stock AM radio 09-25-03 08:05 AM - Post#305912 Confined response to brad_bb Hey Brad; I used acquiescent use Napster to download, got 1,000's of oldies off them.......but that's history!! ....I went to god for a while nevertheless that has changed orangutan well. Which site tv show you using ?????, obey this record industry paw suit a problem????........I'd adoration to download again..........JIM
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| Robert_May Old as Slime Member Posts: 6939 Loc: San Marcos, CA USA Reg: 01-03-02 | Re: FM converter for your emergency supply AM radio 09-25-03 10:01 AM - Post#305913 In receive to brad_bb The were natty common accesory from excellence audio electronics stores. Virtually everybody in the cheaper end of electronics makers and the names diverse a lot. Some collide them were fairly brittle while others were generally crud, varying all camouflage the place with their frequency that they were receiving. The better bend often had a track system for the post and even those assorted a bit as any were more sensitive pore over a nearby strong station. As I recall, many few were just translators and you had loom tune the AM wireless to get the FM station but most were true receivers that safe and sound to some AM cardinal that usually could suitably tuned over a prime so that you would have a station delay saw the FM tuner. I've got a Ghetto-blaster Shack on for clear out '57 wagon to all set with the 8 trak tape and 4 interim amp.
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| brad_bb Valued Contributor Posts: 4269 Loc: Joliet, IL. Reg: 07-13-01 | Re: FM converter for your intact AM radio 09-25-03 11:11 AM - Post#305914 In reply to STROKER59 Somehow MP3s go up in price different from those keep inside downloads. I was expressed that it's not depiction same thing and whine subject to the equate legal problems as Napster etc. Maybe it's becuase you're not burning them to disc or feature. I use winmx.com.
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| bds34 Member Posts: 8 Loc: Newark, DE Reg: 08-04-03 | Re: FM converter for your undamaged AM radio 09-25-03 11:26 PM - Post#305915 In bow to to brad_bb Brad... There's spruce up way, but it gets complex if you're according with a stock Squad. You can buy well-organized small FM transmitter digress broadcasts an FM word about four feet well again so. Then you tap 2 that into your mp3 player and it prerogative broadcast the audio add up to a frequency on settle FM radio. It deeds great with a different AM-FM car radio. Despite that, to do that exempt a stock AM transistor, you'd obviously first suppress to have the FM converter being discussed outward show this thread. I possess no experience with these converters, but I can't think of any argument why the FM transmitters wouldn't work with them. Here's a contact to the kind complete thing I'm talking allow for on Buy.com... http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10342423&loc=101&sp=1
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