[DMCForum] Re: FM radio differences - Europe vs. US
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[DMCForum] Re: FM radio differences - Europe vs. US
- From: "Christophe Vieira" <88mph@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:45:40 -0000
Hello all,
On an american HU you will only get the odd freq on FM, on european
HU you can tune all frequencies (odd and even). It is why you was
able to listen some FM radio.
About the AM, in American mode you have 10Khz spacing between freqs
and in Europe we have 9 Khz spacing.
With best regards from France,
Chris.
#04271/DL1981.
--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Andrew <aos+yahoo@xxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, David Cox wrote:
>
> > --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "therealdmcvegas"
<dmcvegas@xxxx>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> How could they have used them? It's my understanding that
European
> > FM
> >> stations end in even #'s, such as 102.6, where as North
American FM
> >> stations end in odd #'s like 102.7.
> >
> > What I remember from the 3 years I lived in Germany is that the
spacing
> > between stations is different. I don't remember exactly what
the
> > difference was, but it was something sort of like this:
European
> > stations might be something like .6 apart, for example 88.0,
88.6, 89.2,
> > 89.8, etc.; US stations are something like .7 apart, so they
might start
> > also at 88.0, then go to 88.7, 89.4, 90.1, etc.
>
> I believe this is all wrong.
>
> Eurpoean FM is the same spacing as US FM. It's AM that's
different. Euro
> AM is 8 kHz spaced and American is 10 kHz.
>
> I know this because I have a European radio in my other car (Audi
refuses
> to sell the good Navigation system in the US, so you have to hack
the Euro
> system into a US car to get the good stuff) and I can listen to FM
just
> fine, but get only (theoretically) 10% of the AM stations.
>
> Luckily, I never listen to the radio.
>
> -andrew
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