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Jim Yanik

"Rudge" wrote in
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"mm" wrote in message
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On 16 May 2007 18:20:51 -0700, wrote:

i was wondering if there was anyway possible to take a car stereo
system and inbed it into lets say a wall and hook it up to speakers
and everything but run it off of the electrical outlet in the house?
what would i need to rig up so that i could avoid the whole car
battery set up which would need a constant charging that would build
up hydrogen gas and pose as a potential fire hazzard? if any of
that made sense, i appreciate your help.

If you are doing this to get stations you can't get on your AC
radios, I"m told it won't work. I'm told car radios get such good
reception because of the car itself, maybe because it forms a ground
plane around the base of the antenna.

If that is true, how well do the radios in Saturns work? They have
all plastic bodies.

No,Saturns have plastic panels over a steel chassis.
Mostly on the sides,I believe the roof is still steel.

Would a simple aerial tuning unit enable someone to use a car radio
with a long wire aerial or any aerial that happens to be on the roof
or in the loft?

Rudge

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