Re: Car radio stopped working

No doubt about it, the OEM Chrysler radios were top-of-the-line for sensitivity, selectivity, and audio. I was quite proud of the radios we built in Huntsville. Only reason I pulled the OEM radio in my '03 Dodge Dakota was to gain the hands-free features of a Bluetooth radio. Took out the 1.5 DIN, put in a double-DIN. Now THAT was a job!

Re: Car radio stopped working

I was looking for some odd RF parts to play with to kill some time in my garage/workshop. Pulled that RAS radio out of a bin with other car radios I had. Opened the radio then realized that it was a unit with the Temic FM tuner and a TDK (?) AM tuner. Not much RF fun there.

I might have been the Temic guru at Chrysler had I stayed on and completed the test program. That was 20 years ago, and I pitched any documents that I might have retained long ago. I've got some double-balanced mixers coming in next week from Ebay, but that's next...

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Hey gang! I've been a frequent visitor to badcaps.net, but only now registered to this site. Been in electronics since the mid-1960s (junior high school), fixing cast-off console model tube radios from the '30s and '40s. Attended WVU Tech (West Virginia Institute of Technology back then), class of 1975, received my BSEE. Worked at Armco Steel, General Electric, Chrysler Huntsville Electronics, and finished two years ago at Battelle Memorial Institute in Huntsville. Retired now but keeping busy with ham radio (KU4AA) and my test...

Re: Car radio stopped working

Ok. I have a Chrysler "RAS" original factory radio from a 1994 Dodge Dakota that is fully functional, for which I have absolutely no use. It's an AM/FM unit with cassette. Price is right, too: $0.

I worked for Chrysler Huntsville Electronics from 1985 to 2001, originally in automotive tester section but moved over to component test in 1998. I was assigned to work up a test program on the automated test equipment to verify the Temic FM tuner units. Seemed that the Temics had a very high failure rate and was probably the #1 failure...

Re: Car radio stopped working

eccerr0r,

I had found your thread while cruising the net for some info on the Temic FM tuner module. Since the last post was only 5 weeks ago, I thought I might ask: Are you still working on your car radio (not given up on it)?

I might be able to help with a donor unit that I have as a spare.
Jim