I'm betting you notice this during warm-up, and only on FM, right? This is
just typical of the early FM receivers, before the days of quartz-lock
tuning and AFC. Some were worse than others, but it is a design problem,
not something that can be cured by anything other than a complete custom
selection of temperature compensated capacitors and the like - and not
something most shops will even attempt these days. It is so much easier to
just have the radio converted to modern electronics, plus you will get
stereo audio in the bargain. Any of the Auto Radio repair shops that
advertise in Hemmings or the other hobby publications can do this conversion
for you - just contact them for a quote. After you recover from that, you
can buy a modern CD player and set it on the seat beside you for tunes.
Dick Benjamin (who never played one on TV, but is actually an EE and a
reformed radio repair guy, now sober many years!)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Woolf,Richard" <richard.woolf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 8:17 AM
Subject: IML: radio reception
> Hi Gang,
> Does anybody know a good place to send my radio AM/FM out of my '66
> Imperial Crown. It will play, but the station always drifts, and you have
to
> constantly reset the station. I also have a problem with the radio in my
'79
> Lincoln Town Car. It has a loud hum coming from it will you're on the
higher
> bands.
>
> Rich Woolf
>
> '66 Crown
> '73 LeBaron
> '57 Chrysler Saratoga
> '77 Cordoba
> '61 Dodge Pioneer
> '72 Valiant
> '73 AMC Matador Wagon
> '59 Ford CS Wagon
> '69 Ford Galaxie
> '79 Lincoln TC
>
>
>
>
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