Ben Dawson is former managing partner of Hatfield & Dawson Consulting Engineers and now a senior consultant to the firm. He is a recipient of the Radio Engineering Achievement Award from the National ...

When radios were first introduced into cars in the early 1930s (thank you, Motorola) they were basic AM-band units. Power came from the 6-V car battery (12 volts did not become standard until the ...

A lament about the demise of AM radio has been rising in the halls of Congress. Several automakers, most notably Tesla and Ford, have decided to stop putting AM radios in their electric vehicles. They ...

The fight over the future of AM radio got a little more heated this week as organizations representing the auto and technology industries told Congress that its plan to mandate this mode of radio wave ...

An old — on second thought, make that “very old” — Sony AM/FM broadcast transistor, which I somehow acquired, finally got a little too cranky for me, Figure 1. The analog-dial tuning knob was sluggish ...

BMW, Mazda and Volkswagen are among the automakers that have decided to stop putting AM radios in new electrical vehicles, citing electric engines interfering with the sound of AM stations. There are ...

Can you believe AM radio is still around? Me and a few others still do use it. I listen mostly in the car for traffic, weather, and news, though sometimes I listen to talk programs on a small AM/FM ...