Wonder how far your favorite FM stations go?

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This site is awesome. I found that I can get some of my favorite signals from Nova Scotia in downeast Maine.

Internet radio all the way.

It WOULD be awesome if radio stations ever played good music that isn't Top 40 or whored out "classic *genre*" crap. I'd listen to internet radio but the fact that there's at least 8675309666 stations online makes my head explode from trying to choose.

The rare times I listen to the radio is for NPR when I'm extremely bored/tired.

I always wanted to check out amateur radio though.

I have an internet radio (by Roberts) and it is programmed with stations from where I used to live, where my in-laws live and various jazz and new music stations. It works just like a real radio (i.e. standalone box with no computer) and you just select a station and listen through the hifi.

It also plays my entire CD collection (stored on a NAS) by artist, album, genre, playlist and so on.

It is a wonderful piece of hardware, although I sometimes have to mentally shift my geography when the news is on.

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Last edited by Willard on 01 Sep 2010, 11:02 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Mostly that is true - there are some very good playlist stations (e.g. Tokyo JazzJazzJazz), and some truly dire ones.

The reverse also works for organisations that do think. One of the internet stations I listen to most is (UK) BBC Radio 6, an alternative and new music station. One of the factors saving this station from proposed closure is its worldwide reach to an audience for live talent.

in honor of the OP's original request for DX'ers inputs, i [situated in midwestern WA] have received AM radio stations from as distant as los angeles, [sorry i can't remember call letters] and FM stations as distant as north vancouver island BC and medford, oregon, using just a dipole antenna in favorable reception conditions [temperature inversion].

Big Oops - I was misled by the second post, with which I agree that internet radio is truly awesome.

My location on the edge of a big ocean has very few FM signals, although I used to use SW to get BBC (UK) and ERT (Greece) amongst others (and every station I listened to is broadcast on the internet, without interference).

my shortwave radio went on the fritz a while ago, so now if i want to hear international programming i can find it on the wonderful world wide web. my great frustration with broadcast reception is interference, as you mentioned above. when i try to listen to "coast2coastAM" it fades out infuriatingly. i wish to hell they were on FM i think the producers of that program deliberately do this so as to encourage their listeners to pay mucho moolah for their internet narrowcasting service. i am too fundage-deprived and too cheap to do this, though. so i put up with the damned fade-outs.