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The shirtless wonder
Perhaps satellite radio?
Sirius Stilleto II
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Another NPR junkie here. My Sony Ericsson Walkman cell phone has a radio built in (can listen to it only through the headphones). It works great and on my runs I can have news, music and a phone all in one. Oh, of course there is a camera built in so if there is a pretty sunrise I can take pics also.
Ewa
I've got a fever...
A lot of NPR programming is available via podcast. Listen on your schedule.
+1
As a side comment, I will say this -- I hate sports broadcasts on FM. I know the sound quality and reception is markedly inferior, but football on AM is just the way it's supposed to sound.
On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.
rectumdamnnearkilledem
Yep, I have logged many a run with Saturday NPR programming on days other than Saturday.
Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to
remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
~ Sarah Kay
Master of the Side Eye
Me too!
TRUST THE PROCESS
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The thing I miss most about AM radio is listening to it in the car when I was a kid... during a thunderstorm. Any lightning strike nearby would augment the broadcast with the coolest ZOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT! noise. I can't believe that wasn't recorded and used as a sound effect in something like Star Wars (where the effects/foley people used all kinds of things you wouldn't expect)
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an amazing likeness
Due to some programs being only on AM, I recently was on the same quest, Lex and was never able to find anything with the AM. I had to give up and just go with FM radio as the only radio band.
Post back if you hit on a small, AM/FM, MP3 player. I went with the Sansa Clip (which is FM only).
[I like how you titled this, it reminds me of "We've got both kinds of music here son, Country and Western..."]
Acceptable at a dance, invaluable in a shipwreck.
<tangent> The thing I miss most about AM radio is listening to it in the car when I was a kid... during a thunderstorm. Any lightning strike nearby would augment the broadcast with the coolest ZOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT! noise. I can't believe that wasn't recorded and used as a sound effect in something like Star Wars (where the effects/foley people used all kinds of things you wouldn't expect) </tangent>
You get the same awesome sounds listening to shortwave, too.
I have had the same issue. I like NPR and can get that on FM just fine. But the Cubs' broadcasts are only on AM, as are a lot of basketball and football games and I like to listen to that.
The technical problem is that an AM radio requires a much larger antenna, made of a ferrite core with a lot of windings. That antenna is, by itself, the size of many MP3 players.
The marketing problem is that very few people listen to AM radio...as the Radio Shack guy said to someone here "only old people listen to AM".
I guess I'm old.
I do have a small AM "transistor radio" size unit I got at Wal Mart for about $5, which has a belt clip. A little clunky but it works.
Good luck!
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WGN, baby! But what is with them getting rid of Kathy & Judy!?
SRL, when I listen to AM radio out of Chicago I can still hear that lightning sound you referenced. It's really cool, since the lightning is striking over Lake MI--between me and the broadcast tower. As it gets closer the noise gets more intense.
will run for popsicles
i'm still able to get little sony radios that have am and fm. i tend to burn about one a year from sweat issues. AM definitely essential for dan patrick in the morning and to hear my beloved diamondbacks sink even further into the cellar in the evening. and for FM, i definitely find myself timing weekend runs to catch scott and leeann from start to finish. young whippersnappers and their ipods don't know what they're missing ...
Margarine,
you should listen to Arnie Spanier in the am on am1060 The guy is killing the Dbacks LOL