Am stations

A little more information on Superadios:

GE

GE tech

I've heard good things about the Crane, Sony, and Sangean radios. As Tatest noted, the vintage 120V stereo stuff can be very good for listening. I have a few and use them at the house. My RV has an older NAD receiver that has antenna terminals and I use a J-pole antenna for stereo FM. I have no interest in AM other than the variety one gets on the road.

Tuner Information Center is a repository of data on vintage stereo tuners and receivers.

Good article here from Radio Labs that talks about AM reception, external antennae and the best AM radios for reception.

Thrift store, Salvation Army.

I use a Superradio. They were produced under RCA, GE and Radio Shack brands. I see that Amazon still offers one. Some models have antenna jacks, but they do rather well with just the internal antenna.

Happycamper30 wrote:
Good Morning RVers,
Just a simple question, I'am looking for a radio that is FM/AM
inexpensive, that has a AM out put for an external antenna port,i
want to get AM stations but where we are, (a seasonal) I cannot get
AM stations any ideas and what kind of antenna, radio, how to hook
it up,
Thank you for time and help,
Happy Camping.

What kind of radio.. Well here we have two answers,, First the low cost version..

Take any portable,, Take a wire, 100-300 feet long

Get oh say 50 feet of NYLON (no wire) cord,

And a standard pop botle (Water bottles may work but the heavier PLASTIC pop bottle is better)

Drill a small hole in the cap of the bottle

Put the nylon cord (one end) through the hole and doble knott so it does not pull back

Fill bottle with water and cap.

Other end of nylon cord goes to one end of wire

Now,, David and Goilath that wire over as many tree lmibs (as far out) as you can go and still have some left

Wrap 2 times around your portable and hook the free end to a ground rod... or RV use I would suggest one of those 3- feet long phillips screwdrivers, for home use 10 feet of copper drivein into the ground.

And that is all there is to it, the loops around the portable will couple the long wire to the radio.. NOTE: you are in teh 300 meter band, proper wire length is 75 meters, but shorter will do.


More impressive answer:

Shop somewhere like GigaParts.com or DX Engineering or Cheapham.com

Look for general coverage receivers,, Alas the ones I found were 200 and 400 dollars and did not have an AM antenna input,, (They were hand helds)

I use my kenwood TS-2000 but that is a transmitter so a license is needed,, AM broadcast is Receive only on it.

Sony used to make a nice portable SW AM/FM radio with an external AM antenna jack and sensitive receiver. Even though it has been discontinued it is still available. I purchased mine this January from B&H Photo Video but it was available from other online sources. The model number is:

ICF-SW7600GR

This may be more expensive than what you had in mind but this is a really quality radio.

Dick

Suggest a Google search on "Home Made AM Radio Antennas"
A simple wire coil near by the radio works great built dozens of them over the years

Sony ICFC11IP/BLK

Is an AM-FM radio with an Iphone Dock.

It ha an external loop antenna for AM, and an external long wire for FM.