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 Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 4:28 am Post subject: Dumb questions (AM radio) |
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| Quote: | From: "Richard Girard" <jindoguy(at)gmail.com (jindoguy(at)gmail.com)>
Re: Dumb questions
>personal (habit) of listening to broadcast
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| Quote: | radio on the ADF.
Bob Dingley
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Bob, I assume you are an AM radio junkie?
My suggestion/opinion DO NOT buy a big heavy car
radio/CD player and mount it in the panel. Why? Its
heavy and not needed to listen to radio.
My suggestion is MOST all intercoms have an audio
input with a little phone jack. You can connect a little
portable AM/FM battery powered radio or iPod / MP3
player or any audio source you desire to it. The antenna
can just be the internal antenna or small whip, no need to
install antennas and run coax and add drag/weight. The
antenna in cockpit can pick up plenty of signal through plexi.
I use a little high quality portable AM/FM radio. It has
digital tuning and scanning. The wire from the radio to
the head phone acts as the antenna. I just used a little
phone to phone jumper cable, plugging it into the intercom,
and had radio. It worked very well. I like listening to some
radio shows or sports on a cross country. No need to
take up the panel with a big automotive unit. Keep it
light and keep it simple. Plan on a good intercom and
good head sets. The nice thing is when the COM radio
kicks in the intercom cuts the entertainment audio out.
When the COM is quite, the entertainment fades back in.
Go to Radio Shack and search "AM/FM Pocket Radio".
There are 23 models to pick from $10-$30. Check out
the Grundig Mini 300 AM/FM/SW Pocket Radio, its
pretty cool and has a rubber duckie antenna and SW
radio, for $30.
The DOWN side with radio, as you know, you out fly
the station. Of course super powerful AM radio stations
at night, with "skip" can be listened to for a long time
time, if you are flying towards them. "The Captains
Guide", has list of high powered AM radio stations around
the county. I can't stand AM radio for the most part. Now
I only use my iPod with +2000 songs and 'pod casts'.
[Pod cast are almost anything and often entertainment
programs, like radio shows. You download them from the
web, often for free. For example I download a NPR program
or two on my iPod.]
ADF is dead, heavy, bulky and on deaths door with
GPS.
George ATP/CFI (RV7 still pounding)
PS: per other suggestions XM radio is the bomb but
cost monthly subscription. However if you have a
protable XM radio unit, it can plug into the same
intercom audio/aux input the protable AM/FM
radio does.
Be a better friend, newshound, and [quote][b]
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