Re: Stereo AM Confirmation

2014-04-10 Thread Steve Jacobson
and may have been the biggest reason that AM Stereo didn't make it. Who knows. Best regards, Steve Jacobson On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:10:19 +1000, Dane Trethowan wrote: Hi! Okay, it seems that Australia used the Motoroller method for transmitting Stereo AM in the end after a battle in court over

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2014-04-09 Thread Ray T. Mahorney
Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 04:41 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Stereo AM Slight corrections required here smile. AM Stereo was Pushed for cars and I can tell you exactly which manufacturers were paid to put Stereo AM into their products as I was working in the car

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2014-04-09 Thread Colin Howard
Dane, I note nobody has come back on the DropBox link I posted, details below: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7644179/A.%20M.%20stereo.zip file name: A. M. stereo.zip I would have thought somebody must have heard this, so why no comments? I am interested to know what happens when a

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2014-04-09 Thread Dane Trethowan
long as the 25HZ tone was received by the detector circuit on the AM Stereo radio then the radi could receive the Stereo AM signal. I listen to Radio 2CA in Canberra without any problems, Canberra is around 300 miles away from here. On 9 Apr 2014, at 7:49 pm, Colin Howard co...@pobox.com wrote

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2014-04-09 Thread Steve Jacobson
The recording is interesting. This recording does show AM stereo's capabilities, but I have heard better audio from receivers using a wider bandwidth, and of course this recording is getting some adjacent channel interference as well which would make a wider bandwidth less effective. While

Stereo AM Confirmation

2014-04-09 Thread Dane Trethowan
Hi! Okay, it seems that Australia used the Motoroller method for transmitting Stereo AM in the end after a battle in court over here, the U.S. apparently used the Magnavox method or the Haris method, nothing was tightly controlled by the FCC until it was far too late smile. ** Dane

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2014-04-08 Thread Dane Trethowan
Slight corrections required here smile. AM Stereo was Pushed for cars and I can tell you exactly which manufacturers were paid to put Stereo AM into their products as I was working in the car industry myself at the time, never seen so many sales brochures pertaining to one particular topic

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2014-04-07 Thread Anders Holmberg
signal. Barry Chapman - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 12:46 PM Subject: Re: Stereo AM Now a question for you, is this the Motoroller standard? If so then yes

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2014-04-07 Thread Alexandra GrĂ¼nauer
Of Anders Holmberg Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 6:32 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Stereo AM Hi! But why in the world use AM at all? Just curious as i live in Sweden where we don't have much radio stations running. Those who run runb on fm. /A 6 apr 2014 kl. 05:20 skrev

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2014-04-07 Thread Laurence Taylor
On 06/04/2014 13:28, Colin Howard wrote: Greetings, I have absolutely no idea what system is being used in the files, DropBox link for which is below, all I can tell you it in the UK A.M stereo has never taken off, I am unaware what, if any serious experiments have been carried out over

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2014-04-07 Thread Barry Chapman
@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 2:44 AM Subject: RE: Stereo AM I think it's important if you want to broadcast long distance, especially in countries like the USA, Canada or Australia where there are people who don't live in the range of many FM stations. Alexandra -Original

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2014-04-06 Thread Barry Chapman
List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 2:42 PM Subject: Re: Stereo AM Okay fine and I appreciate you looking this up in Wikipedia however not everything on Wikipedia is accurate, I know someone else who is well informed on this topic and - whilst I'm not disputing the standard

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2014-04-06 Thread Dane Trethowan
some mention of the Harris system back in the 80s. Barry Chapman - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 2:42 PM Subject: Re: Stereo AM Okay fine and I appreciate you

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2014-04-06 Thread Colin Howard
Greetings, I have absolutely no idea what system is being used in the files, DropBox link for which is below, all I can tell you it in the UK A.M stereo has never taken off, I am unaware what, if any serious experiments have been carried out over here. The archive file, link for which is below,

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2014-04-06 Thread Tom Kaufman
, 2014 11:21 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Stereo AM Hi Dane, From Wikipedia: C-QUAM is the method of AM stereo broadcasting used in Canada, the United States and most other countries. It was invented in 1977 by Norman Parker, Francis Hilbert and Yoshio Sakaie, and published

Stereo AM

2014-04-05 Thread Dane Trethowan
, quite nice audio so - for those who have never heard stereo AM before - take a moment to enjoy. WCTC in AM Stereo on Denon TU-680NAB ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 faceTime

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2014-04-05 Thread Evan Reese
Back in the 80s when I was visiting my parents in California, there was a stero AM station. But I didn't have any stereo AM receivers. But I did have two portable radios. I discovered that if you tuned them just right, you could get the stereo sound. Evan - Original Message - From

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2014-04-05 Thread Tom Kaufman
: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Evan Reese Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 12:59 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Stereo AM Back in the 80s when I was visiting my parents in California, there was a stero AM station. But I didn't have any stereo AM receivers

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2014-04-05 Thread Dane Trethowan
Yep, that's how I used to do it back in the 80s, was a Teenager then and had no buying power smile., its a crewed way of doing it but it did work to an extent. Of course, that procedure you outlined very much depended on the method of broadcasting Stereo AM. On 6 Apr 2014, at 2:58 am, Evan

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2014-04-05 Thread Alexandra GrĂ¼nauer
Hi Dane, Thanks for that information. I didn't know that there was stereo am. Could you please post the direct link because all I found via google was a guy introducing a stereo am tuner, announcing that he would play it and then stopping after a quite boring show of unwrapping the thing: http

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2014-04-05 Thread Steve Jacobson
Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Evan Reese Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 12:59 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Stereo AM Back in the 80s when I was visiting my parents in California, there was a stero AM station. But I

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-05 Thread Dane Trethowan
I think I know the Sony Walkman Stereo AM Walkman you're referring to, its easily identifiable by the very large band switch on the face of the radio, I used to call that Walkman the Biscuit Radio as the band switch reminded me of a chocolate biscuit/cookie smile. The radio was okay though I

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2014-04-05 Thread Gary Schindler
Maybe the Melbourne station used SeQuam like the system that was adopted in the states. Stereo separation was pretty decent and most of the big gun radio stations in Pittsburgh broadcast in stereo 24 7. by the late 90's stereo AM went buy the wayside like HD AM is pretty much done around here

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2014-04-05 Thread Barry Chapman
Yes, Australia used the C-QUAM standard for AM stereo. Barry Chapman - Original Message - From: Gary Schindler garys5...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 11:52 AM Subject: Re: Stereo AM Maybe the Melbourne station used SeQuam

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2014-04-05 Thread Dane Trethowan
- Original Message - From: Gary Schindler garys5...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 11:52 AM Subject: Re: Stereo AM Maybe the Melbourne station used SeQuam like the system that was adopted in the states. Stereo separation

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2014-04-05 Thread Dane Trethowan
: Gary Schindler garys5...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 11:52 AM Subject: Re: Stereo AM Maybe the Melbourne station used SeQuam like the system that was adopted in the states. Stereo separation was pretty decent and most

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-05 Thread Barry Chapman
uses quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) to encode the stereo separation signal. Barry Chapman - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 12:46 PM Subject: Re: Stereo AM Now

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2014-04-05 Thread Dane Trethowan
...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 12:46 PM Subject: Re: Stereo AM Now a question for you, is this the Motoroller standard? If so then yes, that's the main one used in Australia. On 6 Apr 2014, at 12:41 pm, Barry Chapman ba