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Old 29th Nov 2021, 5:50 pm   #106
colourking
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Default Re: Radio Caroline Power Increase

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Originally Posted by Sideband View Post

The car radio could also receive it quite well but for some reason, AM through the car radio sounds awful probably due to the limited IF response....just sounds mushy and flat
This muffled AM sound is often due to low pass filtering of the audio AFTER demodulation, rather than the IF.
Cutting out a relevant capacitor to Gnd can greatly improve AM audio.

What the manufacturers were up to I do not know?

Audio above 2kHz greatly helps intelligibility of speech in a vehicle with road noise etc, yet the car radio manufacturers choose to attenuate AM audio above 2-3 kHz !
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