OE radios

[don t. - 72gmc]

I have a factory installed AM radio. On another site I frequent, and mostly trust what one participant stated, this radio can be programmed to a different station. He said this
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Simple set the station you want pull the button out and then push it in and the radio is programed to go to that station when you push the button
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True or false?
I've never heard of such a thing.
Curious...Don.

[67 twins]

Originally Posted by don t. - 72gmc

I have a factory installed AM radio. On another site I frequent, and mostly trust what one participant stated, this radio can be programmed to a different station. He said this
....
Simple set the station you want pull the button out and then push it in and the radio is programed to go to that station when you push the button
....

True or false?
I've never heard of such a thing.
Curious...Don.

Oh its definitely a thing. I believe all GM radios with push buttons were set that way, although I'm not 100% sure on that.

[ghackett1]

Originally Posted by don t. - 72gmc

I have a factory installed AM radio. On another site I frequent, and mostly trust what one participant stated, this radio can be programmed to a different station. He said this
....
Simple set the station you want pull the button out and then push it in and the radio is programed to go to that station when you push the button
....

True or false?
I've never heard of such a thing.
Curious...Don.

TRUE
Find the station you want, pull out the button , then push all the way back in like to change the channel and that button will always go back to that channel. Wow I feel really old that I know this LOL!

[jocko]

Yep, it’s the original way to set station “memory” buttons.

[desert-rat]

If I remember, the right knob was to select your station so the dial would move left or right. Once you find your desired station, any of the push buttons under the screen, pull one out than push it all the way in. That station is now selected to the button. I'm a millennial but use to play with the original radio in my family's '69 GMC. I would sit there and push the buttons and watch the dial fly around on the display. I wish I had an original on my '72.

[1967GMCC20]

Yes....GM push button... thats the advantage of pushbutyon over non. Today hold on preset station button and the presets are set in modern vehicle.

[MJN]

Yup- thats how they work. Outlined in the owners manual too

[pjmoreland]

Push Button Video

[truckster]

It's another one of those things that were once common to us "older" folk that seem baffling today... like a rotary phone.

[Getter-Done]

For Sure

True

[Rust_never_sleeps]

Unlike modern tuners, it'll prolly require "fine tuning" with the outer knob much of the time, but the button will get you close.
Now it's time for a Geritol and my nap

[HO455]

Not just GM radios most American vehicle radios have that function. I guess that it started in the 50's about the time the Wonderbar radios appeared.

[leddzepp]

Originally Posted by HO455

Not just GM radios most American vehicle radios have that function. I guess that it started in the 50's about the time the Wonderbar radios appeared.

X2

Every vehicle we owned when I was growing up was this way.

[697498chevy]

Just checked and my '69 C 10 radio does this . Thanks !

[HO455]

When you lived in the small town with one AM radio station there wasn't much changing of the radio stations. Being a smart-Alec junior high school kid I didn't think my dad listened to the radio in his K20 so one day I reset the buttons to the far off Spokane stations you could only get occasionally. Stations that played Rock and Roll!

I quickly found out I was wrong in my assumption when I was told in no uncertain terms to "Keep my grubby paws off the radio!". Years later I found out he had the stations set to stations in all the surrounding towns he regularly passed through. He was a logger and drove 30 to 50 miles to work every day.

[don t. - 72gmc]

I guess an old dog can learn new tricks.
I've had 60's and 70's vehicles for a long time.
I never knew. Never read the owners manual either(big grin).

Thanks all...much appreciated...Don.