It seems to me, in the UK at least, that FM is for music, and AM is for news, sport, discussion etc.

Same here in the States.

With an Empeg, I won't be stuck for music, so if I want to play radio, I am more likely to want to tune into the sort of stations that you find on AM.

Wow, that's a very good point. I'd never thought of it that way. Empeg guys, are you listening?

I don't mind some sort of bodge job while we wait for the AM/FM module to come out.

Once upon a time, many years ago, I had only a tape player in my car, but no radio. I was planning a long trip on the weekend and didn't want to miss a certain radio show while I was driving (for U.S. residents: I didn't want to miss Car Talk.). I bought a cheap portable AM/FM headphone radio (very small, smaller than a pack of cigarettes) and swapped the tape player's outputs for this thing's headphone jack. It wasn't the perfect solution, and I had to adjust the radio's volume carefully to prevent overdriving the outputs, but it worked. In the case of the Empeg, you could use its aux-in connector for a similar thing. It would be pretty easy to do, just get a stereo headphone-to-RCA adapter plug, and run headphone extension plug out from under the dash somewhere.

Tony Fabris
Empeg #144