@w8emv@mastodon.radioA Detroit Free Press story on the plans for automakers to end support for AM radio, especially in electric vehicles.
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2023/04/01/ford-am-radio-commercial/70062845007/
Specially Ford: "Ford Motor Co. plans to stop putting AM radio in new gas-powered and electric vehicles beginning in 2024"
@w8emv Yeah, that's because Ford can't figure out how to cheaply design their electric vehicle inverter circuits so they won't interfere with the AM radio, so the easy thing is to just delete the AM radio. A few years back, GM announced they no longer had to protect any frequencies between the AM band and 30 MHz, because they checked the FCC database and found that no amateur licensees had any fixed frequencies assigned to them in that region. 