Baffling radio interference
I have a 2001 Ford F350 crew cab, long box pickup, with a Triton V10 engine, which we picked up in October. We love our new-to-us truck, but we have an issue with the radio. We live in a rural area, ...
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My dad was a television / radio repair man when I was a kid. I grew up with a house full of broken electronics and a room full of televisions running in "test mode". Some were outside the cabinet, just laying on the floor. For a 6 year old kid in 1961, this was 'electronic paradise.'
I learned a few things from Dad. This was in the day before FM radio existed. UHF on televisions (channel 14 and up on air TV) was in it's infancy, technology was new, changing fast, and although I did not work on this stuff, found it pretty exciting to be around this stuff.
Had things not gone the way it did, he probably would be as big and profitable as Best Buy now, but circumstances took a different turn. By the time I was 16, his business was gone. By the time I was 26, he died (alcoholism)... you get the picture...
Anyway, back to your problem. AM frequency is very subject to electric impulses as electricity has a "wavelength" that often interferes with AM signals. I mention my dad, because I remember him explaining to me on countless times, the repair he was doing on someone radio was for the electric interferences. He installed a resister, or a transistor, or some kind of filter on those old radios and that took care of the problem.
Now, in your truck, I don't know how you'd take care of that, other than taking it to a shop somewhere and see what they diagnose.
I remember as a kid, dad gave me this old radio, it was really neat, and I really wish I still had it. But it was AM only. I could get specific signals that caused a tick-tick-tick sound, and another one that would give a squalling sound, and under my bunk beds, it became my control panel for my make believe submarine. It was awesome! (Later, I somehow got hooked on Country Music!).
I learned a few things from Dad. This was in the day before FM radio existed. UHF on televisions (channel 14 and up on air TV) was in it's infancy, technology was new, changing fast, and although I did not work on this stuff, found it pretty exciting to be around this stuff.
Had things not gone the way it did, he probably would be as big and profitable as Best Buy now, but circumstances took a different turn. By the time I was 16, his business was gone. By the time I was 26, he died (alcoholism)... you get the picture...
Anyway, back to your problem. AM frequency is very subject to electric impulses as electricity has a "wavelength" that often interferes with AM signals. I mention my dad, because I remember him explaining to me on countless times, the repair he was doing on someone radio was for the electric interferences. He installed a resister, or a transistor, or some kind of filter on those old radios and that took care of the problem.
Now, in your truck, I don't know how you'd take care of that, other than taking it to a shop somewhere and see what they diagnose.
I remember as a kid, dad gave me this old radio, it was really neat, and I really wish I still had it. But it was AM only. I could get specific signals that caused a tick-tick-tick sound, and another one that would give a squalling sound, and under my bunk beds, it became my control panel for my make believe submarine. It was awesome! (Later, I somehow got hooked on Country Music!).
