Bose processing...was Re: [BC] QUESTION FOR THE "MIND" MASSES

[Bernie Courtney]

consider yourself lucky.  The last rental car I had (for a 5 hour drive) had
AM OR FM radio that worked, just a CD player.  Thankfully I discovered this
before I left home and burned some CD's for the trip or I would have been
ready to kill.

bern


On 12/10/05, Alan Kline <akline at netins.net> wrote:
>
> Speaking of rentals...
>
> A couple of weeks ago we rented an Suzuki mid-size for a trip from Iowa to
> Arkansas and back...
>
> The AM section of the radio was virtually non-existant.  As we were headed
> from
> Kansas City back toward Iowa, I tried to tune in WHO Des Moines to get
> some info
> on the weather and road conditions.  Should have been able to get a
> halfway decent
> signal anywhere north of the Iowa border.  Nothing.  Tried again just
> southwest of
> the Des Moines metro.  Still nothing.
>
> If you can't get a 50-kw blowtorch 20 miles away, what can you get?
>
> When I turned the car in, I made clear to the clerk that there are
> customers who
> consider AM to be important, especially in situations like this.  Not that
> it'll
> do any good... I fully expect my next rental to have one of those gizmos
> for
> connecting an iPod...
>
> ak
>
> ------ At 02:22 PM 12/8/2005 -0600, The Most Honourable Mike McCarthy
> wrote: -------
> >Speaking of jumping off the dial.  I had a rental with a AC/Delco BOSE
> >system for a few days and noted a few stations JUMPED out of the dash
> while
> >most others simply were there.  This is not evident on most radios. Just
> >the Bose system exhibits this feature.  And it's not 5.1 either.  But it
> >
>
>
> Alan Kline, CBT, KN?H
> akline at netins.net or kn?h at arrl.net (home)
>
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