Trick question: none of the stations are worth listening to.
I had to do that yesterday cause the power went out and my dad wanted to use the radio, but couldn’t find the station. Got it the first try 😚
Doesn’t matter what you do or don’t program.
When you push a button, you’ll hear right-wing propagandaNPR is pretty great for left leaning media.
Back in the day our AM stations had local programming. Mostly call in talk shows that covered issues both local and far. The hosts would describe themselves as conservative but they were way more tame than the shit today. Then Rush Limbaugh went national.
There is only two flavors of AM radio I’ve ever heard (having been born in 1985):
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Christian talk
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24/7 Traffic reporting
I would have liked to have been around when AM radio was exactly as described by the song AM Radio by Everclear.
That’s a catchy tune for sure but it’s odd to hear someone being nostalgic about it. It wasn’t unusual for someone to say “sorry but all I have is am jams” if they gave you a lift and their radio didn’t have FM (AM being pronounced phonetically so it rhymes with jams). AM radio was more known for oldies, pre 60’s music. Also the signal faded when you drove under a bridge. For reference I graduated in '84
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no online manual
I’ll bet you there’s a manual for this exact radio available.
Also, there is the car manual which pretty much covers everything.
… which was easy, because each button had exactly one function, and there where only 6 buttons on the dashboard.
I count 7 here: frequency, stations (x5) and volume.
Originally the radio was an expensive extra and not part of the standard equipment in most 1960’s cars.
Of course I can program it. I have no idea how to do so right now, but if you gave it to me I could fiddle with it for a few minutes and figure it out.
Websites used to be like this. I hate modernity.
A was never able to do it correctly :(
This is the dumbest thing I’ve seen…well I was gonna say all day, but I just read about florida sex ed not teaching sex ed and there are levels.
Spin one of the doodads until the station you wish for is properly locked
Yeah but how to you lock the station into a specific button
You don’t… Even when it’s “programmed” it’ll still slide a bit short or long & you have to find tune it.
Source: I’m an old fart
You don’t…
You absolutely…
Even when it’s “programmed” it’ll still slide a bit short or long & you have to find tune it.
OK yeah fair. Especially if you play with the buttons a lot like trying to press them both at the same time.
It’s been decades, but… you press the button, spin to the station, then release the button?
Am I remembering correctly or should I check into the home now?
I think you pull the button you want to program out
It literally works the same as it does now. At least, to the user. The differences are entirely behind the scenes and wouldn’t matter. 🤦♂️
Pull the button you want to “program” out, then push it all the way back in.
Yeah and the preset mechanism was mechanical, which is pretty wild.
That was the fascinating part. Only by actually using one you could feel it pull to the station via a literal string inside. Apparently (some/most) auto sunroofs work in a similar way, and you do not want to break that cord.
Apparently (some/most) auto sunroofs work in a similar way
That’s how your normal automatic car windows work, too.
When I was a kid, I got pissed at my dad for something and reset all the stations, thinking it would throw him for a loop. He noticed what I had done almost immediately, fixed them all in about 5-10 seconds and looked at me like I was stupid.
Now reset his router and see if he can get reconnected in < 30 seconds LOL
Some of us “old timers” have a foot in both worlds. I grew up with some cars like this, but also with the birth of computers, so I can appreciate the old and new. I will admit keeping up these days is hard and I don’t know much of what’s out there, but I feel I can understand the basics and not be totally lost.
My dad on the other hand was genius with mechanical stuff. Could rebuild an engine, weld, draw up plans and construct things, including a house. He was totally lost in the computer world though, including the idea of the internet, no matter how much I dumbed it down or used analogies.
I’ve also seen younger people at work who can work a smart phone like magic, yet also would not know how to restart a router or recover from/avoid a computer virus.
I’m just barely a boomer, but I’m also a software engineer/manager. Sometimes younger folks assume I need help with computers/tech, or are surprised when I’m knowledgeable about them. It’s starting to change for me, too, though. I haven’t kept up with newer languages, and as a manager I really don’t write any code outside of the occasional Excel VBA, so I’m getting pretty stale.
my library had manuals for most common car makes and models. couldn’t check em out, but could photocopy the pages you need.
Also I used to be able to do this but I’m so old I wouldn’t remember how either.
I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t be possible in my country as all the radio stations switched to digital and phased out analog.
This thing would be great at picking up cosmic microwave background by that’s about it.
I’ve got all my presets set to Azathoth.
BBC World service is still broadcasting on AM :)
Pull out the button set a channel and push it in, it’s possible that they need to be lowest to highest frequency, but that could just be the only way we ever did it lol
I vaguely recall pushing in two buttons at once to get them both to pop out, but maybe that was something else.
I used to have to replace a rubber belt in my cassette player every 6 to 8 months towards the end of my first car. Now I could probably figure it out but there’s a good chance I’d fuck it up a few times first. Time can be a harsh mistress.
Bro you can just Google it, it’s alright to ask for help
MILLENNIALS BAD
Millennials probably the last generation that will remember (vaguely at least) things like vcr’s, cassette/cd-dvd and floppy disks. Millennials were positioned in an in-between time of rapid tech advancement.
Millennials doesn’t mean kids alove during the turn of the millennium to old fucks. It just means “kids these days”
