Never seen a SW car radio before

[wa2ise]

Wonder if the front end is stable enough to always get that SW station after a long cold night or hot summer day in teh car...
No affiliation, source: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Hitachi-WM-91...item1c1b6aadf5

[ggregg]

German and some other European cars had them. I've seen Blaupunkt and Becker ones before too. Obviously Japan had them also.

[Sandy G]

Yeah...My dad always had a Mercedes when I was growin' up & a few of them had SW radios in 'em. They were "Becker Autoradio" brand.

[Kamakiri]

I had a Kraco radio in my Super Beetle that had weather band. I thought that was brilliant and wondered why more radios didn't have that.

[Reece]

Around 1940-41, Chevrolet and I think Caddy and Buick offered factory radios with short wave bands.

I had a short wave adapter on the radio in my '69 Fiat Sport Coupe. The adapter came from J.C. Whitney and was a long narrow underdash device with a number of buttons on the front. It inserted between the antenna and the radio. Push a button for the 31 meter band, the 25 meter, etc. Then the radio tuned that band up and down the regular BC band.

[Phil Nelson]

My Blaupunkt Derby receives SW.

http://antiqueradio.org/blau01.htm

SW makes more sense in Europe than in the USA. Plenty of stations, comparatively nearby.

Phil Nelson
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

[CoogarXR]

Originally Posted by Kamakiri

I had a Kraco radio in my Super Beetle that had weather band. I thought that was brilliant and wondered why more radios didn't have that.

I would have loved that when I was a delivery person. I hated having to tune into the local pop station and have to suffer through the music just to know if there is a tornado warning... I suppose I just could have carried a portable though.

[AUdubon5425]

My wife's '97 Saab 900S had the weather band too. One day I changed the battery and discovered I did not have the security code for the radio. The closest Saab dealer (two hours away) wanted me to physically put the car in the shop to obtain the code. His excuse was he didn't know if the radio was stolen. Now who'd steal an 11-year-old cassette deck??? Anyhow, put in a poorly-fit Sony CD player - sans weather band of course.

[bgadow]

Those security codes can really be a big pain-I run into it all the time at work. Hardly anyone has it written down, most have no idea there is such a thing. Honda isn't too bad, I can usually talk the local service dept into looking it up for me. I remember a VW that was a real pain, and we had a Mercedes in which the code they gave us wouldn't work. I don't think she ever did get the radio working again.

I had an AM-FM-8 track with weather band, I think it was also a Kraco, or something similiar. Yep, a very handy feature. I remember late in the 80s reading a blurb in Popular Communications about a new car stereo with SW, digital tuned I believe. It was from one of the big names in ham gear, possibly Kenwood.

[dieseljeep]

One of my neighbors had a brand new 60 Saab. The dealer installed a Blaupunkt radio that had shortwave, as well as AM and marine band. They had it designated MB, but it really was long wave. The radio sounded great.

[electroking]

Sometime in the late eighties or early nineties, a Philips-branded aftermarket
radio was available with shortwave, IIRC.

[electroking]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

Wonder if the front end is stable enough to always get that SW station after a long cold night or hot summer day in teh car...
No affiliation, source: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Hitachi-WM-91...item1c1b6aadf5

Too bad the seller wants it to stay inside Australia...

[Sam Cogley]

Originally Posted by Kamakiri

I had a Kraco radio in my Super Beetle that had weather band. I thought that was brilliant and wondered why more radios didn't have that.

The factory radio in my 1992 BMW 318iC had the weather band. Nice feature, but the rest of the radio wasn't working too well so I put in a nice JVC CD player.

[mstaton]

Looks like a Becker from a Mercedes. I find them here in Idaho all the time.