I thought cars should not make electrical interference - gas or electric. Once upon a time, gas cars used noise suppressor spark plug wires for just that reason. Now, i guess it doesn't matter anymore. No more regulation.
I support AM radio for public safety reasons. I live in a city that sees potentially tornadic weather multiple times a year and we have an AM station that is the best source for live updates. In addition, civil defense messages to the public by AM radio has been and always will be essential in a time of severe national crisis. Everyone should support AM radio.
Don't FM support emergency services such as tornado etc. Plus you have DRM Radio system that should support emergency services, You won't be able to hear emergency loud and clear on AM in your electric car etc.
@@DylanClements98 AM radio rarely goes out in emergency situations or way away from civilization due to its insane penetrating range. FM and TV don’t do that so well.
@@scottpeacock5492DRM doesn’t exist here in the U.S. as we have a proprietary method of digital radio called HD Radio. As for interference, some electric car manufacturers have already come out with ways to reduce interference, it’s just the other electric car manufacturers are too cheap to implement it.
Radio propagation works in 2 ways: groundwaves & skywaves. With F.M. & T.V., those frequencies are too high for the skywaves to be reflected back to earth, but with A.M. being in the medium frequency band, those signals are reflected back to earth, several hundred miles away. Additionally, most F.M. & T.V. stations have about the same coverage (50-100 miles), whereas an A.M. station in the middle of the country (where the soil is better) that is low in the band can travel 200 miles! If the station has a generator, & a working tube backup transmitter (in case of e.m.p.s), they’re unstoppable! A lot of F.M. stations are just automated jukeboxes.
Back in the day, linemen would use untuned AM radio to find breaks in the overhead power lines. I can hear electric fences on my AM car radio as I drive past them.
AM is great for picking up noise. When you drive by that fence you hear the 60hertz signal from the power station(us), or a stepped up version. 50hz(eu).
Low frequencies travel through objects better than higher freq. Submarines tow antenna's behind them that can be MILES long to use super low frequencies to penetrate thick ice.
Where I live one of the talk radio stations on AM made the permanent move over to the FM dial. Another AM station went off the air permanently due to low ratings. I'd say AM radio is definitely dying out. The sound quality on AM is poorer, less people listen to it, and some stations can't be heard after dark due to interference.
AM radio can travel farther than FM, making it more useful for public emergencies. Also, the government sold off public bandwidth to the point we have to pay a subscription for everything. All that TV station bandwidth that the government gave away already, shows a trend. Another reason, the internet, and wireless phones don't work everywhere, and cut out if your in areas that have mountains, or hills even. So, do you want to listen to music that will cut out during a LONG road trip? I've been there, and just let me have my radio stations. It's like our government is getting rid of everything free and useful to the public, after selling off American brands like Levi's so we can't make our own clothes anymore. We are being drained in this country, and after everything is gone, what do you think the government will do to us? One other thing, I use the static of a unused station as a white noise generator, that won't use your internet up doing the same thing. White noise is good for sleep, as I did this since I was a child, now not much has static white noise anymore, after that stupid blue screen on the TV that blocks it.
AM propagation is much greater. Hell, shortwave still exists! I agree the FCC needs to regulate RFI for electric cars. Hell, old fashioned point-distributors sometimes caused AM radio noise!
The car companies that eliminate am radio on their vehicles will sacrifice market share to the remaining companies that respond to market demand. Some car buyers will avoid new cars and choose quality used cars that have an am radio. In my case I plan to buy an am TUNER with buttons that replicate a traditional am car radio and thumb my nose at those who want to bring an end to am. ngto
The UK has the special privilege of being much smaller than a US state thus we can easily cover the country with FM and DAB (work in progress). Unfortunately DAB being a 80's technology is a bit dated hence DAB+, however even that fails to give decent quality over FM thus even FM still hasn't been switched off and won't be for quite a long time yet.
These automakers don't know what a noise blanker is. Both my truck a 2013 Dodge Ram and car a 2018 Nissan Rogue have the engine noise. But I can see it being worse on electric vehicles.
@@ZacharyRodriguezVlogs Car radio is the best place to listen to long distance AM. I live just outside Chicago and can get stations from Denver to San Antonio to Virginia.
AM should have started uploading radio shows to RUclips 17 years ago. Come to the present. Think of it like Hot 97 FM on RUclips. It’s simple. Self promotion. Reality shows. If they’d livestream their shows it would bring attention to the existence. RUclips, Facebook, Metaverse, IG, TikTok, Snapchat.
Automakers already removed the CD player in all new vehicles and now AM radio too? I have an EV and listen to the AM radio everyday. It works fine. This sounds like just an issue with Teslas because I know they don't give you AM radio, which is ridiculous.
That's probably because they did the work and put in frequency filters to block the interference that electric motors give off. Heck put anything electric next to an AM radio and it's going to block most signals if it doesn't have a filter to block the interference.
I love A.M. radio that is all I listen to in my car and at night I like to dx the band finding stations from all across the US. I still enjoy am and also listen to short wave radio but I think both have been over shadowed by internet streaming and cellular phones. I hope radio does not go away.
AM radio was the Internet, once upon a time. Especially before the 1996 telecom act began to kill radio via consolidation. But if and when that horrible legislation is overturned, Then variety returns to the airwaves in all bands.
When I was a kid, my first radios were AM only. I listened to music on WABC and WNBC. A few years later FM was killing them, and they had to drop music and go all talk. That was 40 years ago, and they said AM radio was dead. Anyway, I eventually became an old fogey, and wanted news and talk more than music, and found my way back to AM. In the modern era, I've just found it easier to listen to my AM stations through my phone. Maybe the AM band will die, but the programming will just move elsewhere. In that sense, it seems more durable than FM, because music is recorded and readily accessilbe. News and sports happen live in real time.
Here in the UK listenership to AM Radio has dropped and people are now listening on DAB, BBC Local radio has dropped their AM Band infavour of online FM/DAB, National radio Station Absolute Radio has also stop broadcasting on AM infavour of FM/DAB and other is expecting to follow suit in the next few years as listeners are turning to FM/DAB
The amount of power AM stations output is massive. I never really thought of it until I decided to rectify one of my local stations and use it light up a 5mw LED :) 438billion watt hours annually for my local AM station.
It’s interesting that some EV manufacturers are no longer providing AM radios in their vehicles because of the intrinsic nature of high speed switching electronics generating unintentional RF interference. This suggests that they don’t want to solve problems by using proven sound engineering techniques and practices to eliminate RF emissions. Also, this applies to ingression of unwanted signals that could potentially cause a particular vehicular malfunction. Can you imagine the implications of an elevated noise floor of the EM spectrum while millions of noisy EV vehicles and charging stations become the norm in the near future? Unfortunately, AM band is only the beginning, if proper measures are not taken.
I'm not sure of there's more interference in the air these days, but it seems like AM reception at night is garbage on half the stations. I didn't have this problem 10 to 15 years ago and my antenna wasn't nearly as good as the one I have now.
Lmao, there's a lot more interference today with al these cheap electronic devices. AM also highly depends on atmospheric conditions on how well or not it propagates.
the number of electric cars and tesla is low. it's not a loss of AM's audience if for them AM is no longer needed for their cars. concentrate to other cars
I remember when C-QUAM/AM Stereo when it came out. A lot of the stations in Denver used it. It sounded great, but was still subject to lightning crackle. However, AM is a critical national security network that should be preserved. It has to stand on its own feet business wise, but EV "ICE-ing" out AM is just not acceptable.
The AM radio in my Bolt EV worked just dandy until I traded up for a TM3 which came w/o AM. The new car has the TuneIn app and I can stream anything on the planet - including AM broadcasts. Most AM broadcasters have an FM transmitter simulcast anyhow. Welcome to the 21st century.
It's a shame some stations aren't transmitting an narrow band FM signal on the AM broadcast band. There would be some interference rejection. Not much of a modification to the exciter.
AM radio will eventually die. It's just a question of when. Right now theres a massive amount of free broadcasting over the internet, available in the form of music services, podcasts, user supported radio stations like Radio Paradise, etc. Much of it is commercial free, Electric cars are themselves often internet connected via cellular (along with everyone having a cell phone with at least some data), making it possible to listen to just about any station in the world without even needing an AM or FM tuner in the car. Listening to AM radio these days is literally painful. Interference from noise created by modern electronic devices is far worse than in the days of analog and vacuum tubes. The audio frequency range of stations has been stripped down to 5kHz, making the audio sound muffled and cutting off much of the content in music. Stations keep the volume "turned up to 11" for maximum coverage, which also squashes the dynamic range virtually down to 0. The number of commercials run in the course of an hour is insane, the sound quality is awful, and the main content is heavily dominated by right wing media outlets screaming and yelling incessantly. Yes, it serves certain valid purposes as mentioned in the video, but I don't see that as sufficient to keep the whole enterprise alive. Its usefulness for emergencies is often mentioned, but how many people actually still have a working AM radio in their homes? If younger listeners even know about it, (many do not) they have virtually no interest. And why should they? There's very little available on AM that they can relate to.
Yup, try using your phone or websites when the internet and cell sites are down or power is out which happens regularly and especially during national emergencies. Being "modern" isn't always the solution.
@@DarkWinterWolfRecords If the cell sites are down, none of those will get your phone working - nor will they get you internet on your PC if the public infrastructure is out so it's not an 'easy fix 2'.
RFI. Radio Frequency Interference must be suppressed, and there are LAWS in place to force EV makers to suppress their vehicles. That is existing LAW.
I thought cars should not make electrical interference - gas or electric. Once upon a time, gas cars used noise suppressor spark plug wires for just that reason. Now, i guess it doesn't matter anymore. No more regulation.
Yup, this is the real culprit!
I support AM radio for public safety reasons. I live in a city that sees potentially tornadic weather multiple times a year and we have an AM station that is the best source for live updates. In addition, civil defense messages to the public by AM radio has been and always will be essential in a time of severe national crisis. Everyone should support AM radio.
Don't FM support emergency services such as tornado etc. Plus you have DRM Radio system that should support emergency services, You won't be able to hear emergency loud and clear on AM in your electric car etc.
@@DylanClements98Their car has AM radio.
And there are plenty of situations internet service goes out.
@@DylanClements98 AM radio rarely goes out in emergency situations or way away from civilization due to its insane penetrating range.
FM and TV don’t do that so well.
@@scottpeacock5492DRM doesn’t exist here in the U.S. as we have a proprietary method of digital radio called HD Radio. As for interference, some electric car manufacturers have already come out with ways to reduce interference, it’s just the other electric car manufacturers are too cheap to implement it.
Radio propagation works in 2 ways: groundwaves & skywaves. With F.M. & T.V., those frequencies are too high for the skywaves to be reflected back to earth, but with A.M. being in the medium frequency band, those signals are reflected back to earth, several hundred miles away. Additionally, most F.M. & T.V. stations have about the same coverage (50-100 miles), whereas an A.M. station in the middle of the country (where the soil is better) that is low in the band can travel 200 miles! If the station has a generator, & a working tube backup transmitter (in case of e.m.p.s), they’re unstoppable! A lot of F.M. stations are just automated jukeboxes.
Back in the day, linemen would use untuned AM radio to find breaks in the overhead power lines. I can hear electric fences on my AM car radio as I drive past them.
AM is great for picking up noise. When you drive by that fence you hear the 60hertz signal from the power station(us), or a stepped up version. 50hz(eu).
AM covers the ground that digital can not. Simple as that.
Low frequencies travel through objects better than higher freq. Submarines tow antenna's behind them that can be MILES long to use super low frequencies to penetrate thick ice.
Where I live one of the talk radio stations on AM made the permanent move over to the FM dial. Another AM station went off the air permanently due to low ratings.
I'd say AM radio is definitely dying out. The sound quality on AM is poorer, less people listen to it, and some stations can't be heard after dark due to interference.
It's just a shame that FM can't cover the range.
AM actually goes much further than FM, especially at night.
Older Tesla cars did have AM radio because the engine motor is better shielded. You can even hear the motor noise by tuning to an empty channel on AM.
So, seems this is a phony issue and just some way they're trying to get rid of AM radio..
Kyet in AZ is AM sterio as well.
AM radio can travel farther than FM, making it more useful for public emergencies.
Also, the government sold off public bandwidth to the point we have to pay a subscription for everything. All that TV station bandwidth that the government gave away already, shows a trend.
Another reason, the internet, and wireless phones don't work everywhere, and cut out if your in areas that have mountains, or hills even. So, do you want to listen to music that will cut out during a LONG road trip? I've been there, and just let me have my radio stations.
It's like our government is getting rid of everything free and useful to the public, after selling off American brands like Levi's so we can't make our own clothes anymore. We are being drained in this country, and after everything is gone, what do you think the government will do to us?
One other thing, I use the static of a unused station as a white noise generator, that won't use your internet up doing the same thing. White noise is good for sleep, as I did this since I was a child, now not much has static white noise anymore, after that stupid blue screen on the TV that blocks it.
AM propagation is much greater. Hell, shortwave still exists! I agree the FCC needs to regulate RFI for electric cars. Hell, old fashioned point-distributors sometimes caused AM radio noise!
Those old ignitions causes quite a lot of interference.
The car companies that eliminate am radio on their vehicles will sacrifice market share to the remaining companies that respond to market demand. Some car buyers will avoid new cars and choose quality used cars that have an am radio. In my case I plan to buy an am TUNER with buttons that replicate a traditional am car radio and thumb my nose at those who want to bring an end to am.
ngto
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I live in the country and con nor reserve AM with out static. With all modern tell why can’t they build a decent AM radio.
They can, but they don’t want to.
In UK,now Absolute Radio ceased transmission in AM band
yep, 4-7 years before they were supposed to.
@@RWL2012 and Absolute Radio focused to FM Stereo and DAB+ because both band sound quality it's very clear
The UK has the special privilege of being much smaller than a US state thus we can easily cover the country with FM and DAB (work in progress). Unfortunately DAB being a 80's technology is a bit dated hence DAB+, however even that fails to give decent quality over FM thus even FM still hasn't been switched off and won't be for quite a long time yet.
@@riskidxersad that the U.K never allowed A.M. stereo!
@@jayrogers8255 yes,only AM mono
These automakers don't know what a noise blanker is. Both my truck a 2013 Dodge Ram and car a 2018 Nissan Rogue have the engine noise. But I can see it being worse on electric vehicles.
AM radio seems to be more news oriented. I love AM radio, static and all.
Same. The static is nostalgic for me.
You will get more static and interfering with your electric car listening will be unbearable.
@@scottpeacock5492 There are workarounds. In any case, the push to shove us all into electric cars is ridiculous.
@@ZacharyRodriguezVlogs Car radio is the best place to listen to long distance AM. I live just outside Chicago and can get stations from Denver to San Antonio to Virginia.
@@scottpeacock5492only from the manufacturer La who don’t put in noise suppression, which already exists but they are too cheap to do it!
AM should have started uploading radio shows to RUclips 17 years ago. Come to the present. Think of it like Hot 97 FM on RUclips. It’s simple. Self promotion. Reality shows. If they’d livestream their shows it would bring attention to the existence. RUclips, Facebook, Metaverse, IG, TikTok, Snapchat.
At 0:56 says why....its free
Automakers already removed the CD player in all new vehicles and now AM radio too? I have an EV and listen to the AM radio everyday. It works fine. This sounds like just an issue with Teslas because I know they don't give you AM radio, which is ridiculous.
That's probably because they did the work and put in frequency filters to block the interference that electric motors give off. Heck put anything electric next to an AM radio and it's going to block most signals if it doesn't have a filter to block the interference.
I love A.M. radio that is all I listen to in my car and at night I like to dx the band finding stations from all across the US. I still enjoy am and also listen to short wave radio but I think both have been over shadowed by internet streaming and cellular phones. I hope radio does not go away.
AM radio was the Internet, once upon a time. Especially before the 1996 telecom act began to kill radio via consolidation. But if and when that horrible legislation is overturned, Then variety returns to the airwaves in all bands.
@@africkinamerican I hope so I do not want to see am radio go away.
When I was a kid, my first radios were AM only. I listened to music on WABC and WNBC. A few years later FM was killing them, and they had to drop music and go all talk. That was 40 years ago, and they said AM radio was dead. Anyway, I eventually became an old fogey, and wanted news and talk more than music, and found my way back to AM.
In the modern era, I've just found it easier to listen to my AM stations through my phone. Maybe the AM band will die, but the programming will just move elsewhere. In that sense, it seems more durable than FM, because music is recorded and readily accessilbe. News and sports happen live in real time.
Here in the UK listenership to AM Radio has dropped and people are now listening on DAB, BBC Local radio has dropped their AM Band infavour of online FM/DAB, National radio Station Absolute Radio has also stop broadcasting on AM infavour of FM/DAB and other is expecting to follow suit in the next few years as listeners are turning to FM/DAB
The amount of power AM stations output is massive. I never really thought of it until I decided to rectify one of my local stations and use it light up a 5mw LED :) 438billion watt hours annually for my local AM station.
It’s interesting that some EV manufacturers are no longer providing AM radios in their vehicles because of the intrinsic nature of high speed switching electronics generating unintentional RF interference. This suggests that they don’t want to solve problems by using proven sound engineering techniques and practices to eliminate RF emissions. Also, this applies to ingression of unwanted signals that could potentially cause a particular vehicular malfunction. Can you imagine the implications of an elevated noise floor of the EM spectrum while millions of noisy EV vehicles and charging stations become the norm in the near future? Unfortunately, AM band is only the beginning, if proper measures are not taken.
Is anyone measuring the health impact of those EMF's on human beings?
@@africkinamerican. Of course not. That might prove inconvenient to the invro-Nazis
Another forced subscription ploy by companies.
The answer is to put radio interference limits on electric cars.
I love AM. Im from Brazil
Long live Radio!
no worries the E.V 's will go away quietly, just give them time ,
I listen to lightning strikes on AM radio 📻 🌩️
Just another reason to not buy one of these electric vehicles.
I'm not sure of there's more interference in the air these days, but it seems like AM reception at night is garbage on half the stations. I didn't have this problem 10 to 15 years ago and my antenna wasn't nearly as good as the one I have now.
Lmao, there's a lot more interference today with al these cheap electronic devices.
AM also highly depends on atmospheric conditions on how well or not it propagates.
Could be the Geoengineering creating artificial clouds and screwing with the ionosphere
I love talk radio. Call-in podcasts are fine at home, but the immediacy of radio can't be beaten.
I love AM radio broadcast. In my region there are 8 AM stations still on the are. QTH OI52DG. 😍🕊️🇮🇩✨
the number of electric cars and tesla is low. it's not a loss of AM's audience if for them AM is no longer needed for their cars. concentrate to other cars
Democratic communistic States are trying to mandate electric cars for everyone.
I remember when C-QUAM/AM Stereo when it came out. A lot of the stations in Denver used it. It sounded great, but was still subject to lightning crackle. However, AM is a critical national security network that should be preserved. It has to stand on its own feet business wise, but EV "ICE-ing" out AM is just not acceptable.
Censoring conservative talk.
The AM radio in my Bolt EV worked just dandy until I traded up for a TM3 which came w/o AM. The new car has the TuneIn app and I can stream anything on the planet - including AM broadcasts. Most AM broadcasters have an FM transmitter simulcast anyhow. Welcome to the 21st century.
Till you drive somewhere where you can't stream. Welcome to the 21st century where replacements are crippled marketing gimmicks.
It's a shame some stations aren't transmitting an narrow band FM signal on the AM broadcast band. There would be some interference rejection. Not much of a modification to the exciter.
AM radio will eventually die. It's just a question of when. Right now theres a massive amount of free broadcasting over the internet, available in the form of music services, podcasts, user supported radio stations like Radio Paradise, etc. Much of it is commercial free, Electric cars are themselves often internet connected via cellular (along with everyone having a cell phone with at least some data), making it possible to listen to just about any station in the world without even needing an AM or FM tuner in the car. Listening to AM radio these days is literally painful. Interference from noise created by modern electronic devices is far worse than in the days of analog and vacuum tubes. The audio frequency range of stations has been stripped down to 5kHz, making the audio sound muffled and cutting off much of the content in music. Stations keep the volume "turned up to 11" for maximum coverage, which also squashes the dynamic range virtually down to 0. The number of commercials run in the course of an hour is insane, the sound quality is awful, and the main content is heavily dominated by right wing media outlets screaming and yelling incessantly. Yes, it serves certain valid purposes as mentioned in the video, but I don't see that as sufficient to keep the whole enterprise alive. Its usefulness for emergencies is often mentioned, but how many people actually still have a working AM radio in their homes? If younger listeners even know about it, (many do not) they have virtually no interest. And why should they? There's very little available on AM that they can relate to.
The internet isn't free so they are not free broadcasts anymore than the free food you get from the fridge.
You gave it away. You just don't like the politics you hear.
@@africkinamerican Whoosh....right over your pointy little head.
That annoying static is microwaves going through you.
And nobody cares because it's like the rotary phone at this point.
Well you seem to care otherwise you wouldn't have commented.
@@sw6188 I care to not care about it
"What can you do"... : Be modern about it and use your phone/websites. #GenZSpeaks #WelcomeToTheFuture #OutWithTheOld #InWithTheNew
Yup, try using your phone or websites when the internet and cell sites are down or power is out which happens regularly and especially during national emergencies. Being "modern" isn't always the solution.
@@sw6188 Easy fix 2: Use your vehicle as a power source... Use your Power Bank... Use a transfer cable connected to a solar device.
@@DarkWinterWolfRecords If the cell sites are down, none of those will get your phone working - nor will they get you internet on your PC if the public infrastructure is out so it's not an 'easy fix 2'.
@@sw6188 You can still use an AM/FM designated app... most don't require a connection at all. Just headphones as signal, for the FM end
@@DarkWinterWolfRecords Most phones don't have AM reception, only FM.
Fix the source of the interferance. The pieces of crap electric cars need to comply to the FCC rules. Dave N9HF