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Originally Posted by Mark DiSilvestro
Actually, back in '58 it would've been 'AM only' radio.
Happy Motoring, Mark
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Wrong. VW's were European, where FM was the norm. If it had been AM, we could have received a dozen stations.
Look up radio history. FM was the rage in the early '50's in the US and many early '50's radios were AM/FM but it died out in the late '50's because FM had a limited transmission distance. A few FM stations stuck around to provide stereo to a sister station with one side on AM the other on FM. Our 1959 Fisher console used that technology.
FM came back in the late 1960's when it became possible to broadcast both side of a stereo channel on one wavelength.