If you want a reasonably true old time AM radio sound out of a modern small wide band speaker then remember to cut the low freq response starting at about 400 Hz and the high end at 6000 Hz or so. And, to stay with the period in question those numbers would represent cycles per second, cps.
The little repeater transmitters are on the FCC no - no list recently. All of the XM and Sirus car receivers used to have one built into the unit but the guberment made them drop the feature... On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:25:28 -0700 (PDT), [email protected] wrote: >not hard to do - there are little transmitters you can buy which will feed >a signal into your fm radio from an ipod, and i recall similar items for >AM...perhaps still obtainable but not hard to build, either. or just hide >the little drivers inside a vintage speaker housing, and EQ the music >downward to sound authentically crappy? >Dennis Back wrote: >> >> --- [email protected] wrote: >> >>> ... and altho we >>> don't do that in our >>> old cars (baseball or "oldies" AM stations fit well >>> in 60's vintage stuff) >>> there're lots of nice portable ipod speaker systems >>> out there. >> >> Great speakers for this. Thanks for the link. >> >> But...I my mind, having the ipod and the speakers >> "somewhere" is a bit weird to me. You're riding >> around in an old car and the music is coming from >> "somewhere"??? >> >> Now I know that some old, period auto radios had >> speakers coming from under the seat. So..... >> >> What I think would be more "in period" would be having >> your ipod/mp3 player feed a signal INTO an old radio >> and playing OUT of the old radio, which shouldn't be >> hard to do. I just haven't had the time (or >> inclination) to do this just yet on my setup. >> >> Any comments? >> >> Dennis >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________________ >> TV dinner still cooling? >> Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV. >> http://tv.yahoo.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Phono-L mailing list >> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org >> >_______________________________________________ >Phono-L mailing list >http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
