How many of your parents had an FM converter hooked up to the AM car radio?

Posted by millenniumxl-200@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 15 comments

No FM in the Chevette? No problem.

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rhythim313@reddit

Have one under the dash of my '67 Mustang right now.

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I had something similar. Being an aviation geek I love to listen to airplanes so I found one that converted the frequencies used by aircraft to work with a car stereo. It was kind of a pain to use and later I just bought a handheld scanner.

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tombacca1@reddit

Never knew this existed. I thought you would have to replace the entire radio.

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Mars27819@reddit

Ya, I'm wonder how this would work? How would you integrate this into the car's existing AM radio?

I've connected my 1st generation iPod to a car radio using an FM transmitter.

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Hagelblass@reddit

One Christmas, I bought one of these at Radio Shack as a present for the family. I remember helping my dad install it, because as a kid, I was small enough to crawl under dashboard and get a hand up in there to hook up the antenna connection.

You had to unplug the antenna lead from the radio, plug it into the converter, and then run a lead (the black wire in the picture) from the converter to the radio. Once everything was hooked up and turned on, you set the AM radio to the frequency that the converter put out, and voila--mono FM through your factory AM radio.

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