ST Alpha - "the problem with drive ins is that car radios need more power than the battery can deliver for two hours, 3 hours, this ain't the 60s with 5w AMs -- nm" (Reading a Post)

SlickerTalk
Search Archives
The Leaderboard
The FAQ

Login
Create Account

Search Dr. S. Talk
TT/ST Wiki
How Well Do You Know ...

RSS Feed

Hosting by DigitalOcean

Support ST on Ko-Fi

Down to Post

Backboards:

Posts: 163

In response to "ST Poll: If Drive-in theaters made a comeback, this summer (because of social distancing), would you go? -- nm" by Flavorize—father of Kraken

the problem with drive ins is that car radios need more power than the battery can deliver for two hours, 3 hours, this ain't the 60s with 5w AMs -- nm

Posted by zeitgeist Apr 5 '20, 13:03

(No message)

Responses:

4 hours plus. -- nm - Spawn Apr 5, 15:03
Yup, I'm *old* All we ever had were the wired speakers on the post that you hung on the car window. -- nm - Meg Apr 5, 13:47
Yeah, also, it would have to be bluetooth or something for the extra audio fidelity. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 5, 13:07 2
- What do you have against FM? Audio snob 😉 -- nm - JD Apr 5, 13:19 1
  - most of the surviving drive ins have low watt FM transmitters...iirc car radios have 15w per chan -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 5, 13:25

Post a message top

Replies are disabled on threads older than 7 days.