Aftermarket (old) Radio Wiring

[Joe Kriston]

Years ago I had one of those old Ford Falcon vans that had an aftermarket Allstate FM radio mounted under the dash..When I sold the van,I kept the radio for whatever reason....I guess I thought it was old and cool looking...Anyway,I want to mount it under the dash of my truck so I can get some nice,tinny sounding,in-and-out fading, rock and hillbilly music,sans the reverb....It already has a fused wire that connects to power,two antenna leads,one marked "to AM radio" and the other marked "to antenna"...and then there's a connector marked "multiplex output"....Anybody know what that one gets connected to?

[68F250]

Boy that must be old! Some of the older FM mono radios used to have a multiplex output to connect to a separate stereo decoder/demodulator. It's a buffered output right from the receiver's FM detector and contains all the baseband modulation information. You won't be connecting that to anything!

It's sort of like buying a HD ready TV and then having to buy the separate HDTV tuner.

[Joe Kriston]

Thanks,Barry...I at least did grasp the part about not plugging it into anything...So,I guess you're telling me to forget about getting digital surround sound out of it...