After a vigorous late night hockey game, I was sharing radio stories with my buddy who's more into tube equipment (but I recently got him excited enough about tapes to get a Tascam Tape Deck). The cold beer was flowing and the subject of AM Stereo came up. As far as I know AM Stereo was a movement in the early 80's to add a second channel to AM. FM Stereo was taking over and with the limited bandwith and FM station market saturation, AM Stereo seemed like a money-making opportunity to add more streams. I was pretty confident that there was never an AM Stereo Walkman or Boombox made but I still thought I should research it more. Sure enough there were quite a few AM Stereo Cassette Players and even a boomobox or two. Most of these look like entry level models sold only in the USA, Canada and Australia. I've never seen one of these, does anybody own one? Here's a great website with the history of AM Stereo, this goes to the portables page. http://www.amstereo.org/portable.htm Now I'm going to have to keep an eye out for one of these.
Billboard 4/27/85 https://books.google.com/books?id=C...bAhXmzFQKHfnlAJoQ6AEIRzAI#v=onepage&q&f=false
I have one or two walkmans with AM stereo radio. In Japan it seems that it worked and several walkmans were released, but I never heard that by myself. There's no such radio in my country.
T-ster, does yours have AM Stereo? According to the website, it wasn't available in Europe but they might be wrong. I remember my buddy had a used Chevrolet with an AM stereo radio but at the time nobody was broadcasting in it. I never saw one after that.
