Re: Stereo AM Confirmation

2014-04-10 Thread Steve Jacobson
Dane, I am fairly certain that we used both in the US and that the Motorola system was slightly more common in the end, but it was never controlled as you said and that likely hurt its chances to succeed. However, FM really took off here in the 80's and 90's and that also probably hurt and ma

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-09 Thread Steve Jacobson
The recording is interesting. This recording does show AM stereo's capabilities, but I have heard better audio from receivers using a wider bandwidth, and of course this recording is getting some adjacent channel interference as well which would make a wider bandwidth less effective. While lo

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-09 Thread Dane Trethowan
I haven't had a listen to your file yet, I haven't had a chance. I should think that your question regarding the stereo signal would very much depend on the method of AM Stereo used. The method used in Australia had a 25HZ tone broadcast along with the signal thus - and yep it does work - so lo

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-09 Thread Colin Howard
Dane, I note nobody has come back on the DropBox link I posted, details below: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7644179/A.%20M.%20stereo.zip file name: A. M. stereo.zip I would have thought somebody must have heard this, so why no comments? I am interested to know what happens when a little

RE: Stereo AM

2014-04-09 Thread Ray T. Mahorney
Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 04:41 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Stereo AM Slight corrections required here . AM Stereo was "Pushed" for cars and I can tell you exactly which manufacturers were paid to put Stereo AM into their products as I wa

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-08 Thread Dane Trethowan
arry Chapman > > - Original Message - > From: "Alexandra Grünauer" > To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 2:44 AM > Subject: RE: Stereo AM > > > I think it's important if you want to b

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-07 Thread Barry Chapman
t'" Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 2:44 AM Subject: RE: Stereo AM I think it's important if you want to broadcast long distance, especially in countries like the USA, Canada or Australia where there are people who don't live in the range of many FM stations. Alexandra

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-07 Thread Laurence Taylor
On 06/04/2014 13:28, Colin Howard wrote: > Greetings, > > I have absolutely no idea what system is being used in the files, DropBox > link for which is below, all I can tell you it in the UK A.M stereo has > never taken off, I am unaware what, if any serious experiments have been > carried out ove

RE: Stereo AM

2014-04-07 Thread Alexandra Grünauer
pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of > Anders Holmberg > Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 6:32 PM > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Subject: Re: Stereo AM > > Hi! > But why in the world use AM at all? > Just curious as i live in Sweden where we don't have much radio stations > running.

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-07 Thread Anders Holmberg
to encode the stereo separation signal. > > Barry Chapman > > - Original Message - > From: "Dane Trethowan" > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" > Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 12:46 PM > Subject: Re: Stereo AM > > > Now a question for you

RE: Stereo AM

2014-04-06 Thread Tom Kaufman
, April 05, 2014 11:21 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Stereo AM Hi Dane, >From Wikipedia: C-QUAM is the method of AM stereo broadcasting used in Canada, the United States and most other countries. It was invented in 1977 by Norman Parker, Francis Hilbert and Yoshio Sakaie, and

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-06 Thread Colin Howard
Greetings, I have absolutely no idea what system is being used in the files, DropBox link for which is below, all I can tell you it in the UK A.M stereo has never taken off, I am unaware what, if any serious experiments have been carried out over here. The archive file, link for which is below, c

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-06 Thread Dane Trethowan
. I do remember some > mention of the Harris system back in the 80s. > > Barry Chapman > > - Original Message - > From: "Dane Trethowan" > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" > Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 2:42 PM > Subject: Re: Stereo AM &

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-06 Thread Barry Chapman
ssion List" Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 2:42 PM Subject: Re: Stereo AM Okay fine and I appreciate you looking this up in Wikipedia however not everything on Wikipedia is accurate, I know someone else who is well informed on this topic and - whilst I'm not disputing the standard used

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-05 Thread Dane Trethowan
nal Message - > From: "Dane Trethowan" > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" > Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 12:46 PM > Subject: Re: Stereo AM > > > Now a question for you, is this the Motoroller standard? If so then yes, > that's the main one used

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-05 Thread Barry Chapman
UAM uses quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) to encode the stereo separation signal. Barry Chapman - Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 12:46 PM Subject: Re: Stereo AM Now a question for you,

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-05 Thread Dane Trethowan
- > From: "Gary Schindler" > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" > Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 11:52 AM > Subject: Re: Stereo AM > > > Maybe the Melbourne station used SeQuam like the system that was adopted in > the states. Stereo separation was prett

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-05 Thread Dane Trethowan
> Barry Chapman > > - Original Message - > From: "Gary Schindler" > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" > Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 11:52 AM > Subject: Re: Stereo AM > > > Maybe the Melbourne station used SeQuam like the system that was

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-05 Thread Barry Chapman
Yes, Australia used the C-QUAM standard for AM stereo. Barry Chapman - Original Message - From: "Gary Schindler" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 11:52 AM Subject: Re: Stereo AM Maybe the Melbourne station used SeQuam like the system

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-05 Thread Gary Schindler
here now. If KDKA can't make a go or looses interest in the newest form of transmission, the others follow suit. - Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 8:26 PM Subject: Re: Stereo AM I think

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-05 Thread Dane Trethowan
-----Original Message- >> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Evan >> Reese >> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 12:59 PM >> To: PC Audio Discussion List >> Subject: Re: Stereo AM > >> Back in the 80s when I was visitin

RE: Stereo AM

2014-04-05 Thread Steve Jacobson
e said 6500, then I knew and was >totally amazed at how good it sounded! >Tom Kaufman >-Original Message- >From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Evan >Reese >Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 12:59 PM >To: PC Audio Discussion List >Subject: Re

RE: Stereo AM

2014-04-05 Thread Alexandra Grünauer
Hi Dane, Thanks for that information. I didn't know that there was stereo am. Could you please post the direct link because all I found via google was a guy introducing a stereo am tuner, announcing that he would play it and then stopping after a quite boring show of unwrapping the thing: http://

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-05 Thread Dane Trethowan
Yep, that's how I used to do it back in the 80s, was a Teenager then and had no buying power ., its a crewed way of doing it but it did work to an extent. Of course, that procedure you outlined very much depended on the method of broadcasting Stereo AM. On 6 Apr 2014, at 2:58 am, Evan Reese

RE: Stereo AM

2014-04-05 Thread Tom Kaufman
an -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Evan Reese Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 12:59 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Stereo AM Back in the 80s when I was visiting my parents in California, there was a stero AM station. But I

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-05 Thread Evan Reese
Back in the 80s when I was visiting my parents in California, there was a stero AM station. But I didn't have any stereo AM receivers. But I did have two portable radios. I discovered that if you tuned them just right, you could get the stereo sound. Evan - Original Message - From: "D