Do iPods Cause AM Interference in iPod Clock Radios?

I currently have two bedside tables, one for my Sangean WR-2 and one for my iPod player. I notice if the iPod gets too close to the radio, the AM reception gets static.This occurs even when the JBL iPod player is turned off.

So my question is this: Don't those all-in-one clock radio iPod players provide AM interference (or FM too for that matter)?

I notice Philips and other brands dropped AM altogether.

However, there is a Yamaha TSX 70 unit that looks promising. But I'm concerned about interference and secondly I don't see a headphone jack in the user manual.

I would really like to buy the Yamaha to get some space by my bedside.

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Comments

[Shawn]

When I put my ipod touch right next to my AM radios, it interferes a lot. I found this out because I was dxing around with my radio, and tried to use my ipod touch to log the freqs with.

[Mark Roberts]

An iPod is a computer. Computers make electrical noise. AM is far more susceptible to electrical noise than FM.

The only way around it is to have an AM antenna that you can move away from the docking location. Sangean did this with its HDT-1 series of HD AM and HD FM tuners. It works but it's unhandy.