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Car radios without Long Wave (LW) capability

  • 16-09-2009 11:06pm
    #1
    Antenna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,332 ✭✭✭


    To what extent do current new cars for sale in this country have radios without Long Wave (LW) capability?
    In recent years its certainly been the case that radios in VW and SAAB cars have been found not to cover Long Wave

    Is this still the case?

    has RTE's discontinuing of MW in favour of LW resulted in a re-think by Volkswagen etc on this issue?

    Maybe readers of this board would check any relatively new cars' radio they have access to and see is Long Wave (LW) covered out of curiosity?
    The principle LW stations receiveable in this country are RTE R1 on 252 kHz, BBC R4 on 198, French services on 162 and 183.
    (note some car radios - often found in Toyota - combine MW and LW into a single AM band)


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  • #2
    Stylo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭Stylo


    You might find that in one of the MW wavebands, that buttons to the right (ie buttons 4,5,and 6) COULD be LW


  • #3
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,592 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Stylo wrote: »
    You might find that in one of the MW wavebands, that buttons to the right (ie buttons 4,5,and 6) COULD be LW

    The buttons are, generally, programmed to whatever you want them to be. A single "AM" band is common - on Fiats you just keep going down under 500 to get to LW.


  • #4
    Antenna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,332 ✭✭✭Antenna


    Was looking at the car radios that came into Lidl some days ago - according to the box they are MW/FM only so no longwave. So they seem to do nearly everything except receive LW !

    Attached picture, as another example, is a picture of a Volkswagen car radio which I tried out recently which most certainly does not include LW. Its AM section covers 531-1602 kHz only.
    That said, to its credit it has 'analogue style' manual tuning available on the right knob - you can manually tune along the FM and MW bands and the audio does not mute when doing so (just reduces in volume slightly) so its much easier to find weaker stations (that are ignored on a Scan) on this one compared to most car radios. Maybe radio manufacturers should take note, please have more user-friendly tuning.


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