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On 05/14/2013 08:17 AM, vu2nan wrote:
Channel Jumper;804920 Wrote:
Thanks

That is a real old web site - saw it many times before.

The problem is - not many safety razor blades anymore - other then
cardboard cutters or utility knife blades.

With the commercial broadcast bands going digital - it is hard to find a
good signal anymore.. Even KDKA is hard to hear at night with the
digital signal of another station in about the same exact place.


Hi,

You are absolutely correct. The way things are changing, I wonder if
future generations will appreciate old tech!

Thanks.

Regards,

Nandu.







I found this


http://www.midnightscience.com/



So I guess there is still interest.


I am disappointed how there are so few good radio stations
but am very glad there is still NPR.
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I am disappointed how there are so few good radio stations
but am very glad there is still NPR.


NPR is pretty interesting, but a mite too liberal for my standards,
what I crave is some good old "Wolfman Jack" or even back a bit
more, "Innersanctem" {sp?} and the squeaking door! XERF DelRio?

Old Chief Lynn

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On 06/16/2013 12:51 AM, coffelt2 wrote:
I am disappointed how there are so few good radio stations
but am very glad there is still NPR.


NPR is pretty interesting, but a mite too liberal for my standards,
what I crave is some good old "Wolfman Jack" or even back a bit
more, "Innersanctem" {sp?} and the squeaking door! XERF DelRio?

Old Chief Lynn




Still plenty of stations that rebroadcast the old programs,
but there is still nothing like live radio.

As to NPR and liberalism...they have /many/ good programs that have
nothing to do politics of any sort.


I love this one

http://www.waywordradio.org/
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On Sun, 16 Jun 2013, philo* wrote:

On 06/16/2013 12:51 AM, coffelt2 wrote:
I am disappointed how there are so few good radio stations
but am very glad there is still NPR.


NPR is pretty interesting, but a mite too liberal for my standards,
what I crave is some good old "Wolfman Jack" or even back a bit
more, "Innersanctem" {sp?} and the squeaking door! XERF DelRio?

Old Chief Lynn




Still plenty of stations that rebroadcast the old programs,
but there is still nothing like live radio.

As to NPR and liberalism...they have /many/ good programs that have nothing
to do politics of any sort.


I love this one

http://www.waywordradio.org/

The sad part about the AM band is that at night when you can move out of
the local, so much of it is syndicated, and usually the same show or two.
The local stations love it, filler for a time when audience is down, but
no thrill when tuning the band. There was a local station carrying "Coast
to COast" and every time it looked like the station was going to fail,
everyone would say "but what about Coast to Coast?" as if they couldn't
get the program so easily up and down the dial. And when that station did
finally die, another station grabbed it right away. Sad, that station
used to have local programming overnight.

For about a decade, I'd listen to WBZ out of Baston overnight if the local
overnight programming wasn't interesting that night, and the overnight
syndicated programming wasn't interesting. WBZ has a good reach
overnight, and except for the fading, might as well be local then. And
they know it, so they keep local programming (though often the guests and
calls are not just about Boston) and basically invite callers from all
over.

Reception got sporadic when a local station started up at 1040, just above
WBZ.

And I'm finding I'm not listening to much radio late at night.

Michael VE2BVW

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On 06/16/2013 11:50 AM, Michael Black wrote:


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The sad part about the AM band is that at night when you can move out of
the local, so much of it is syndicated, and usually the same show or two.
The local stations love it, filler for a time when audience is down, but
no thrill when tuning the band. There was a local station carrying
"Coast to COast" and every time it looked like the station was going to
fail, everyone would say "but what about Coast to Coast?" as if they
couldn't get the program so easily up and down the dial. And when that
station did finally die, another station grabbed it right away. Sad,
that station used to have local programming overnight.

For about a decade, I'd listen to WBZ out of Baston overnight if the
local overnight programming wasn't interesting that night, and the
overnight syndicated programming wasn't interesting. WBZ has a good
reach overnight, and except for the fading, might as well be local
then. And they know it, so they keep local programming (though often
the guests and calls are not just about Boston) and basically invite
callers from all over.

Reception got sporadic when a local station started up at 1040, just
above WBZ.

And I'm finding I'm not listening to much radio late at night.

Michael VE2BVW




I'm retired now, but when I was working I'd spend many hours a day
driving and radio was very important to me. When radio pretty much died
I stocked up on CD's but that was hardly the same...it got boring pretty
fast.

Now, I find myself listening to a few hours of NPR on weekends
and that's about it.


BTW: I am also a ham radio operator, but am no longer active.
I actually prefer Usenet.
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