In message , Mark
Twain writes:
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Now the weird part of this is,. I
have a cheap clock radio and it picks
up allot of stations as well as my car
radio.

Now how can they pick up the stations
but a dedicated quality stereo tuner
can't?
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The "dedicated quality stereo tuner" probably has a shielding metal
case, and is _designed_ not to receive any signals that don't come in
through it's aerial socket. It may even be less sensitive to signals
coming in there, the assumption being that anyone serious about quality
FM audio will have a good outdoor aerial (with rotator if necessary).
(This can also make it less susceptible to overloading, in circumstances
where that might be a problem.)

Probably less relevant in the case of the FM band, but it used to be the
case for AM sets, especially shortwave, where an unscrupulous salesman
would sweep {an unselective set with poor rejection} across the band,
saying "look at all the stations it can get", when in practice many of
them were intermodulation products generated within the set. But it is
probably still true to say that number of stations picked up is not
directly related to quality of set. (It will be, to some extent anyway,
if _all_ signals are weak. But there are two aspects to the "quality" of
the set: the sensitivity/selectivity/other parameters of the r. f. part
of the set, and the quality of the FM discriminator section and
subsequent audio stages.)
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