Could be. Car radios can often be quite good as far as reception, but I
wonder if that is due to the fact you are driving outside, without
buildings and other structures in the way. My 2004 Chrysler's stock
radio gets excellent reception on AM in the evening. Here in Wisconsin
I can pick up the big AM stations from Minneapolis, St. Louis, Dallas,
Atlanta, New York, Ontario, and so forth.

"... Car radios can often be quite good as far as reception...."

This again. I'm not disputing you. In fact, I have yet to encounter the
home hi-fi stereo receiver that approaches a car radio in terms of
AM-MW performance. I can attest to the remarkable ability of a run of
the mill Delco car radio to haul in AM stations from miles away.

There was a page at the C. Crane site commenting on this.
brief delay while I search my files. SFX: the song played near the end
of Jeopardy while the contestants think of the answer to the final
question.

Ah, here we go:


Subject: AM Car Radios For DX?
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date: 2003-02-03 14:46:59 PST

Here's that website at C. Crane:
http://www.ccrane.com/news/archives/...ws10.28.02.htm


Never throw anything away. Yeah, but, attempting to open that site, I
find that the URL no longer works. One is referred to

http://www.ccrane.com/news/news-archives.aspx
and from there to

http://www.ccrane.com/news/car-radio....10.28.02.aspx
and
http://www.ccrane.com/news/car-radio....11.11.02.aspx

These pages deal largely with poor reception and noise suppression.