My Sound System.

[Luva65wagon]

Well Dennis - none of that can hurt. I was just wondering whether the noise was there with the engine running and only AM station tuned. Filter capacitors are just that - filters to remove minuscule changes in voltage up to radical changes. Smoothing everything out. Noisy tube radios are usually a result of these no longer doing their job. With the engine off, the battery voltage it pretty stable and there would not be anything happening to induce noise.

Let us know what happens with the new bits.

[ew1usnr]

I added the filter in-line with the power to the AM radio and the FM converter this morning, and .... Wow! The static is gone. The music plays crystal clear. It sounds like a CD, it is that clear. The filter very much exceeded my expectations.

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I don't think that I will bother with the amplified antenna now. This is perfectly fine the way it is.

[ew1usnr]

I bought a “New vintage style spring radio antenna top side fender cowl mount round base NOS fits one-inch hole” off e-bay. It has a 33-inch fixed mast, 56-inch cable, and a Motorola type plug.

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This antenna is not stock, but it is period correct. The Falcon station wagon that I had while in high school had a spring-base antenna like this and I always that it was pretty cool. It will keep the antenna from being broken off in an automatic car wash.

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Dennis.

[ew1usnr]

As an upgrade to the the sound system in the Falcon, I finally got around to ordering a car antenna male to two female adapter from Amazon for $4.92 including postage.
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That will let me leave the outside antenna connected while also adding my $2.87 power-amplified antenna inside the car along the bottom edge of the dash.
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The amplified antenna will boost the weak FM signal broadcast from my $3 cigarette-lighter MP3 that is received by the FM converter that plays through my AM radio.
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That will give a stronger input signal to the radio so that I a get a louder output volume and will not have to turn it all the way up in order to hear it.

[Luva65wagon]

Wow Dennis. Next will come a GPS navigation unit. Maybe streaming video? I can see it now.

[ew1usnr]

My amplified antenna idea didn't work. The sound actually dropped when I turned it on. The amplified signal must have caused an automatic gain in the radio to attenuate the signal.

But then I saw something called a "RediRad" MP3 to AM radio adapter in MAC's auto parts catalog. MAC's wanted $125 for it, but if you go to the manufacturer's web site or Amazon you can buy it for $99.
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“RediRad Model AM/N - Universal AUX Input - Ideal for AM-only Radios in Collector / Classic Automobiles with Negative-Ground Electrical System, made in Delafield, Wisconsin, USA” off Amazon for $99 + $4.99 postage. See: https://rediscoveradio.com/
“If your Freedom Machine still has its original AM-only radio, congratulations! For so many reasons, there is simply nothing like seeing the factory radio in the dash. But where is the MUSIC? Certainly not on the AM band! Wouldn't it be GREAT to have an auxiliary-input jack for your original radio - without having to resort to an expensive, invasive 'conversion' service? NOW YOU CAN! At only $99, the non-invasive RediRadTM lets you fully enjoy music favorites from any portable source through your existing, functional audio equipment. Have all of this capability without broadcast interference or hacking up that beautiful dashboard! The new RediRadTM model AM/N operates on either 6-volts or 12-volts with a negative-ground electrical system (basically everything U.S.-built after 1955), and an AM-only radio.”

I also bought an MP3 player off Amazon for $18.
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I just hooked up a "RediRad" adapter in The Wonder Falcon and it works just like they said it would. Billie Holiday and BB King sounded great through the dashboard speaker.
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I have the wire that connects to the MP3 player coiled up in the ash tray. I can pull it out to extend the wire and have the MP3 player on the middle of the bench seat while I am using it. I can put the MP3 player in the glove box when it is not needed and tuck the wire back in the ash tray.

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Now I can drive the Falcon while listening to every Grateful Dead album ever made. Yea!

You might notice what appears to be a choke knob while the V-8 motors were supposed to have an automatic choke. That is because an enterprising former owner installed an additional cigarette lighter where the choke delete plate had been. My car has his and hers cigarette lighters! The radio push buttons have melt marks and nicotine stains from people putting their cigarettes in the ash tray. People in the 1960's liked to smoke.

Dennis.

[ew1usnr]

There is a program that can be downloaded for free off the internet that is called FreeMake. It allows people to save music off YouTube as a MP3 file.

See: http://www.freemake.com/free_youtube_converter/

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Someone can google "Billboard Top 100 Hits" and the add whatever year they want. Then they can download every song on the list from YouTube.

See the hits for 1963, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billbo...ingles_of_1963