Did they state you would get it when you bought the car? No, then you have no right for a free extra functionality.

It's everywhere in automotive and isn't even new. I bought a 12 year old BMW motorcycle and half the display wasn't working including the gear indicator and mpg readout. As it turns out, that section of the display was a $300 option and my bike just didn't have it. Luckily it's old enough for someone to have an unlocker tool to re-enable the missing functionality so now it works correctly. That said, this bike has driven for over a decade without these quality of life features it fully supported just because BMW charges $300 for about six values in a config file.

If you have to pay a subscription, then you do not own it. Ask Louis Rossman

@@rj7855 🙄This mentality is why the MAC OS (ew) exists and why Windows is now an an advertising platform. Not everyone shares this way of thinking of being satisfied with not actually owning what they paid for.

@@nordic-chanthank god that you can still buy bikes with electronics that wouldn’t have been out of place in the 80s. I get that bikes with lots of doohickeys are more comfortable/brake better/don’t lose traction as easily but it just defeats the independence that motorcycle ownership is supposed to bring.

Same in Nova Scotia Canada after the September 2022 hurricane. Thankyou CBC 1140AM out of Sydney Nova Scotia.

Questo dimostra ancora una volta che se si spegne la vecchia radio AM, lo prendiamo nel culo bene... Qui in Italia, nazione nota per stare su un territorio in cui ne succedono tutti gli anni di tutti i colori (vulcani, fiumi, torrenti, terremoti, acqua alta a Venezia, acqua bassa nei grandi laghi e fiiumi a secco, invasioni di omini verdi e animali geneticamente modficati) non c'è più niente in AM, se succede qualcosa di grosso (tipo l'Estrusione del Marsili a Napoli che farà sprofondare mezza Italia) ci attacchiamo al tram...

Cervasa 😂😂😂

Sadly, today's youth generally isn't interested in such things. I remember building a crystal set myself when I was young, although I didn't really understand what I was doing at the time. Still, it was neat to put a bunch of parts together and hear radio signals crackle out of the uncomfortable crystal earpiece.

​@@grayrabbit2211 the reason kids today aren't interested is because nobody is there to push them to do things like that. Where's the science kits being sold in stores? It's rarely in the same place as toys.

@@SonicBoone56 No one was there to push me either. By all accounts, I raised myself. At the same time, there wasn't much around the house I didn't take apart and try to figure out how it worked. Lots of exploration and trial-and-error. Plenty of smoke and sparks too. Lots of asking neighbors how to do things. Then again, so much of what we did as kids back then would get you arrested today. Between that and modern schools which punish curiosity, no wonder kids aren't exploring.

@@grayrabbit2211 hey im interested in that a simple radio receiver is cool as heck but not much information on old technology unless u really dig back but then again i guess u dont really got internet back in the days to find information about those stuff either it s just like vacuum tubes, literally no textbooks will cover them nowadays youth today only know, and are fed the new stuff and u know with most places on earth cutting off am, it s pretty hard to justify, i mean i could make an am radio, but i probably wont receive anything where i live

Yes ... That is why I am looking into buying a radio transmitter / receiver for 1 - 30 mhz or so (good for long distance) for emergency use. I am not going to get the HAM licence for it because I have no interest in that , it will only be used for emergency. Also HAM radios has blocked out the maritime channels making it not good for emergency use.

The switching systems for the transmitters to handle that transition are fascinating in their own right!

As a kid in the 50's, I used to build those cat whisker sets. Still have some of the pieces in a junk box somewhere. I wonder if kids can even find them these days.

I miss the crystal radio sets. Terribly uncomfortable earpiece, but amazing that you could put together a radio with relative ease and actually hear something.

Crystal Radios were a blast. Amazing how something so simple could pick up radio shows. I had one that could hear some of the clear channel stations at night. It even heard some shortwave as well. Fun times.

My story mirrors yours almost exactly, sir. Worked at a 1 kW that was directional at night, so my hours were sunset to sunrise. That was during my college years. And I, too, played with cat's whisker radios, got my ham license, and acquired my BSEE as well. But my career has been focused equally on hardware and firmware (embedded systems). Picked up my first soldering gun at age 5, lol!

This has been corporate America's plan for decades. Now the technology is here (thanks to the wireless oligopoly) to make it happen. Make everything and everyone a subscriber. You'll own nothing and gladly pay for the privilege to use something you pay for. Aside from the increasing noise floor on the AM band, the big downer is lack of compelling programming. The bottom line is terrestrial radio and TV will go away, free to air will be a thing of the past, as the corporate overlords who own this country will have their way. Change my mind.

Rip the thing out and fit a proper radio.

​@@SorinOltean77brake*, braking*

Blame Tesla, who started the trend, and the Tesla cultists who are too zombified to realize they're being taken advantage of. They turned the infotainment system into a subscription profit center, and now the rest of the industry is following them, removing the radio and having no support for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, so you have to pay a monthly fee to Tesla if you want to listen to music.

@@G1ZQCArtworknon authorized part detected! Car access disabled

Even so, a lot of ordinances make allowances for at least a certain size antenna :)

@SuperNostalgia. WTF does god and jesus have to do with Ham Radio???

Check federal law on your ability of a licensed ham operator to erect a 60-foot tower and antenna. Federal law trumps local law or HOA rules any day!

There is always a way to get on the aire , even if the snooty hoa won't allow it.

@@voiceofjeff Ha, love the name btw...

I have an HDTV that's 21 years old and still produces a beautiful picture unlike my 90s Quasar television which got dimmer and dimmer every year after I bought it.

@SuperNostalgia. Who made you post this?

I totally agree with you, I have a 1942 AM radio. there’s something about being able to still use a piece of communications equipment that was around during one of the worlds most defining moments.

After the DTV transition I could never pick up TV and never tried again.

@@DJPhantomRage Then you're outside of the stations' markets.

Atsc 3.0 already has provisions for paid drm and is already deployed. I'm honestly afraid that the stations will do more for auto makers to do this, that is if they're getting royalties.

The car makers will argue that they can activate the radios for everyone in the event of an emergency while keeping them subscription only the rest of the time. They can make every radio automatically turn on and tune to the PEP station when there's an emergency.

It's a darn shame that KCJJ turned off it's AM STEREO transmitter(. And if you complain, KCJJ has an employee that responds back with a negative attitude(.

I just lost both my mom and dad a day apart. I can't begin to explain the pain I feel.

Agree. As a West Aussie, you need AM while driving in the country. First to find out where the bushfires are, and second to listen to the cricket. 😁

@@dano4700 Between 2010/2011 I spent 6 months out at Longreach. No FM out there, and I highly doubt there would be any now.

The USA should take up DAB+ radio that runs on VHF Band 3 just like what we have in our major cities here in Australia. It’s CD stereo sound quality. The UK and NZ and other countries use this digital radio technology.

@@davidshepherd265 Believe it or not there is! West FM in Longreach has been up for years now.

I've never heard of that station before

In NJ I use to listen to AM from New Orleans up to CKLW in Canada. Being on a high point there also was a station from UK I could receive.

That is even going away in favor of programmable message boards which, are a better solution because it requires no tuning in on the part of the driver.

Jeff. When you were a little tyke you used to tag along with dad while he worked?

"73's from Ireland" You stated "here in the UK"? Dont understand?

I think the UK has not experienced anything like the Atlantic Hurricane Season in North America? From Florida up the Atlantic Coast to Canada's Atlantic Provinces we have a climate from August to the end of October that is best served by AM Radio.

I can't imagine we'd be able to rely on DAB radio in the UK if we had a national emergency. It's barely reliable for listening compared to AM & FM.

@@Sheffield_Steve Yeah Steve it's rubbish! And that's coming from a HAM radio operator.

In the winter, Radio Enciclopedia is a regular here in Idaho. They have a very strong signal on a nearly clear frequency.

I own a Ford Fusion Energi and the AM works just fine in electric mode.

​@@akshonclipApparently The 21st century "God" known as Elon Musk is unaware of this. Maybe he has some more vaporware to sell.

How did you feed audio into your HP I thought that only has an RF input for reference

There's an input for modulating the amplitude and just used that.

Just wondering, what you did for a living in between. Electronics?

I understand you well - when I was about 11 I connected my headphones to tube radio supplied from AC without transformer. - music was nice untill I tried to improve connection to grounding. Hopefully it wasn't serious .and learning by practice is good thing. Buy way - even chassis of radios with transformers have some AC voltage to ground. Of course cristal radios realy do not match the AC - they were developed for area without electricity . I used long copper wire in garden. Stil miss their wonderfull sounding, after I made even transistor direct amplification just to get higher quality of listening

@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 Yup! Electrical Engineer designing audio and video products.

@@Mikexception Transformer leakage and RFI bypass capacitor. As a teen, fixed Guitar Amplifiers, which could really "kick" you. Ask an old guitar player.

@@shazam6274 I learn since 60 years and my old radio which is now 84 years old sparks to ground through that RFI filtering capacitors. But forgive it all because is unparallel in quality and sensitivity. In old days they even hadn't idea how to make cheap bad radios in favour of small size. Customers dreamed about small and portable enough to receive local station and such were sold.

I used to love listening to that, also. I had a Sony boom box with AM Stereo, and could actually hear it in stereo.

WLS was started by Sears ( WLS = world largest store) so they could sell AM radios in the Midwest

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Expanding FM to VHF channels 5 and 6 (76 to 88Mhz) is a great idea to address the filled up FM band in many cities. Also there are many cars out there today with FM tuners that can support this band with a simple firmware update. This is because many FM tuner on chip modules will come with support for the Japan FM band (76 to 95Mhz) if you look at their spec sheets. They are just disabled in software from tuning below 87.7Mhz in North America. As far as HD Radio goes, its just not robust enough to be reliable in an emergency in my opinion. Its been around for nearly 20 years now and it seems to be getting less and less popular on AM every year. Lightning discharge will cause an HD signal on AM to temporarily drop, imagine trying to listen for weather alerts during a thunderstorm.

Great to hear from you Scott. You deeply understand a lot of what is going on! I remember taking KMOX to HD and the cost and manpower was incredible. Then I realized that was a non-d single tower station and there are so many multi tower arrays that would need a lot of work to go AM HD. I am just getting connected to the local ham community and they seem pretty active in the emergency services. One thought I have had for a long time is there needs to be a focus on making AM relevant in the future. Probably the only real way it would continue. May also have too many big AMs with current owners who overpaid. Keep up the good work and don’t retire any time soon!

Brazil already started the AM station migration using the space made available by TV channels 5 and 6. Auto-stereos cover 76-108MHz for all new cars since 2019 or so.

​@@radijoe No retirement plans yet, though I am hoping my next move is the last. So I guess that means I'll be in Chicago a while longer. I think we use this opportunity to contact all the representitives in Washington while we have their attention. I have mixed feelings about a law forcing a business to do something that won't make as big of difference in the overall situation. To me this seems like a knee-scrape got noticed by a stranger and they feel compelled to put a bandaid on it for you. Forcing the car manufacturers to keep the AM radios in the cars doesn't fix the primary reason they made the decision or had the thought to yank them. It may help reduce the interference caused by the devices on the cars, as that is really the only proper way to fix self-induced interference, but that won't change the driver's opinion of the poor sound, bad programming, and the 1,000's of other man-made and natural noises AM is subjected to. My 2013 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid had a Microsoft Sync system in it. The radio was HD and the AM had a syncrhonous tuner! I could drive under the EL tracks downtown among the skyscrapers and still here more of the radio station than the EL. Hell, even the gas powered CTA busses have some nasty RFI beaming out of them, but that tuner was great. Even between channels you didn't get loud static, it would actually get quiet and have smoother white noise sound, not a bunch of squeeking and buzzing. So, where do we go from here... I say we enlighten our representatives about better manufacturing of the receivers, as we know that can be done. Ask them to get behind the FCC in a true effort to seek out and remedy the Part 15 violations, and set standards for consumer receivers that would provide us better sound and reception than what we've experienced since we began putting radios in cars. Further, as we've seen technology evolve and most every technical company except for radio get to improve from it, we need the FCC to help evolve the AM dial with a real technilogical advancement, not doling out LPFM and translators that only add to the already crowded FM band. You can't get much water out of a rock and I think we've squeezed as much as we can out of the AM spectrum. 10kHz is very limiting, despite HD, DRM, Etc. In the development of HD, our sights were high but the Commission refused to set, or choose any HD standards. Thus the chicken and egg factor drug on for years, shaking the confidence of the receiver manufacturers as well as the broadcasters. Then came the licensing fee's on top of the expense of not only the equipment to transmit HD, but the work on the antenna systems to pass it. And, not all could or would. Plus, I pointed out internally to our group that the DA's would not perform as they should 10kHz up and down from the carrier, so we're spraying HD beyond some station's limits. But then thinking it through in more detail, we were actually adding first-adjacent stations on both sides or our main, so there were a whole new set of rules to deal with. Yet, the FCC allowed it kind of using the translator rules approach. If they complain, then we or you will have to do something. That's not a great warm and fuzzy when you're spending investing all that money into the uknown. I just think it's important for Washington to finally understand the entire scope of the AM issues and really take action on a plan that addresses everyone's concerns and to stop thinking we can defy physics. Nothing done within the constraints of the existing AM spectrum will ever compete with the FM HD or streaming quality. You see, FM is already on the chopping block, too! I've been driving a "connected" vehicle for 30 years, so I know how easy it is to listen to what I want in my car. This is real competition and using EAS as a scare tactic, if it works at all, will only work for a short amount of time. Wireless data is the place where it is and is going to all happen. Radio and TV are starting to sniff a lot of fumes, though the AM's of the radio world are just about on life-support already. Despite the fact I feel we're WAY late in the game of getting the attention of Washington, I say we take advantage of it and see what we can do.

Same in my garage when I'm working, also my area thankfully has one really good AM station with good local morning, and afternoon shows that also broadcast on FM which is about the only thing I use FM for when I can't get their AM signal. I also have a weather radio in my home, and I think everyone should have one of those as well that runs on backup 9V battery power.

@@CommodoreFan64 I'm in hurricane country, so perhaps my view is jaded, but weather radios are useless here. Everything is read by the computer, even during emergencies. Not exactly helpful. Now, a battery operated AM/FM radio with long battery life IS a good idea. Make sure you keep the batteries out of it but nearby. The last thing you want to deal with is cleaning out battery corrosion when you need to use the radio.

It was engineered to be annoying? How does one engineer an FSK modem to be more or less annoying? It's just a data burst.

AM radio is the basis and least complex of all RF communication in existence. Such a technology always has merit.

Do you still have AM radio station? In Italy they are almost all on FM and are pushing to DAB

⁠sometimes the simplest way is the best. It is the most robust way to send information, especially at night, when a lot of stations can send much farther.

Subjective experience is a mental disorder? No one can be completely objective, even those of you who worship measurements above all else. BTW this LP fan finds that old transistor radios sound dreadful.

Remember Art Bell?!?- THAT'S when I "rediscovered" AM Radio! - "We MISS YOU, Art!"

I still listen to KMOX sometimes at night, from our place two counties away from Canada! 🤠✌️😎

And back in late '60s/early '70s, here in the boonies where there wasn't an "underground radio" station, we got our cool music from KAAY Little Rock, after midnight! 📻 😎✌️

@@judsonleach5248 I love listening to Art Bell growing up, and he really helped save so many AM radio stations back in the day. Plus like him, or not, but the same can be said for Rush Limbaugh bringing people back to AM radio in the 80's, and 90's. We need more people like that who can draw, and hold and audience more than ever before on the AM waves, as 98% of FM is corpo trash music!!

I think you may be referring to WLS, another Superstition in Chicago. I'm about your age and grew up in Chicago. WLS was where it was at in the 70's. At least as far as top 40 was concerned. Bob Records Landecker, Larry Landeker...

My washer puts out an awful lot of RF interference.

@@meow69696 I know it doesn't sound good, I just liked the novelty of turning on my old radios and having something to listen to.

The downside of AM is that you can get a lot of interference. Where as FM does not get as much. But if there is not much interference you can get stations from further away. Here in nz the furtherest away i have received an AM station is radio hellas from Melbourne on 1422. I can also sometimes get one from Feji if conditions are good. In terms of local radio i will listen to newstalk zb which is a talkback radio station, rnz national, and also the bbc world service which is rebroadcasted on 810AM in Auckland.

The lower you go in the frequency spectrum the more noise. Long Wave and Medium Wave had their day before FM and DAB were getting widespread. I listen to AM now and then but mostly for nostalgia like Radio Caroline or to check if there is long-distance propagation across the Pond. In Norway where I live they have shut down LW and MW now. The last transmitter operational is located in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. In the 1970-80s, I used to listen to Radio Luxembourg on 1440. It was pretty magical as a kid to have an old tube radio glowing in the dark and listen to some great music fading in and sometimes interfered briefly by other stations :)

Yep. Of course, Charlotte had/has its own clear channel giant 1110 WBT.

One of the many ham-handed decisions made by the Reagan FCC (Including Docket 80-90 and the suspension of the Fairness Doctrine) was letting consumers attempt to decide which AM Stereo system to use because every system proponent was fighting over it (namely Mr. Kahn.) Consumers are smart. But they don't know how stereo radio transmissions work or want to figure out which station was using what system. They just wanted it to all work when they turned the thing on like FM Stereo radio. And it was worse on the broadcaster end; Most stations avoided AM Stereo altogether until the system war was over.. And even when Motorola was selected in 1993, those stereo plans were long forgotten There should have been a system FCC selected, like the Zenith system was picked for FM Stereo in 1961.

@@LarryWaldbillig We're still paying for SO MANY of Reagan's stupid policies.

​@@LarryWaldbillig To be honest, consumers never wanted AM stereo. By that time most music had moved to FM because of the increased fidelity. AM stereo wasn't as interesting as wide-bandwidth AM. We were able to bench-test one of our standby AM transmitters without the bandwidth filters in place, so audio probably extended up to ~12KHz or so, maybe higher. Wow did it sound beautiful. It was an extremely warm sound. Reminds me of a cheap, nasty, vacuum tube amp, but in a good way. Highs weren't shrill crispy like over-processed FM can sound but instead were present and pleasant. Also probably helped that we were feeding a CD player straight into it with no processing.

😅 Have you asked TurboTax about that....? 🤔✌️😎

Has AM radio ever really been a thing in a small country like the netherlands?

@@brulsmurf Yes, because there have been decades when AM was the only thing available. FM was deployed in the Netherlands after 1954, so befor that (from about 1920) there was only AM. And it took at least until the seventies before FM became really common. Even in 1980 a completely new AM broadcast station was built to have better coverage of the country than was possible from its previous location. So in those days, AM was still considered to be worth spending some money on.

@@brulsmurf AM in Netherlands was massive for about 80 years. Just down the road RTL - the old Radio Luxembourg - has just switched off their massively powerful Long Wave station on 234 kHz which covered pretty much all of Europe. AM is dying fast in Europe, the UK and of course Scandinavia where it's pretty much done. The BBC is turning off the Radio 4 AM Long Wave service too - 198 kHz. The SW band is now far quieter globally and with both MW and LW disappearing, it's sadly just a matter of time.

Netherlands also relies on DAB+ instead of analog FM as well right?

@@DGTelevsionNetwork we still have analog fm in the air. not sure if dab is more populair

Was this University Radio York on 1350khz? If its a student station Who decides if it will be on FM, AM or internet? Do students have any say in this? Who pays the license fee? We dont have this in Slovenia, thats why I ask