FM Receivers in Automobiles: a Case for Deiversity Reception

The inconsistent quality of FM reception in automobiles is a major impediment to the well-deserved growth of this important medium. Although FM inherently has the potential for high- fidelity performance and has become a significant competitor to AM broad- casting to the home, it cannot hope to achieve full parity with AM until it can also successfully reach the auto- mobile audience. This is not likely to happen as long as FM reception in autos is handicapped by the phenomenon of multipath distortion.