In article .com,
"Joe Analssandrini" wrote:

Dear Ms. Amy,

In my opinion, the easiest way to hear foreign radio stations over
your stereo is to buy a Sony ICF-SW7600GR shortwave radio, available
from Amazon.com, J&R Music World, Universal Radio, and/or Amateur
Electronic Supply (AES), and a number of other dealers.

This radio has a "line output" which, via a cable available from
Radio Shack, Best Buy, Circuit City, etc., can connect to your stereo
via its AUXiliary jacks. This is very convenient. In addition to
listening via your stereo, you can disconnect the radio and take it
with you and listen to it directly while sitting outside, staying in
a hotel room, etc.

The total cost would be $170 or less (definitely less if you check
with Amazon and/or J&R and look for their "sales" on this radio).

It really does work very well indeed.

Alternatively, you could buy an FM transmitter from C. Crane Company
and connect this transmitter to your computer's audio output jack.
Then you could hear the programs (picked up by the computer and
re-transmitted by the FM transmitter) anywhere in your house or yard
where you can have an FM radio.

But I think the first optiuon is the best. I don't like listening to
radio on my computer - too many "drop-outs," "buffering," etc. This,
to me, is very frustrating. Not that shortwave listening is "easy,"
but I'd rather "put up" with radio's flaws than the computer's.

I hope the above gives you some "food for thought."

Good on topic answers.

Internet listening has it's problems. The BBC for example always sounds
like crap with the low bit rate and nauseating audio compression.

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Telamon
Ventura, California