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[athelind]

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The Spirit of Radio
I've been having increasing trouble keeping my little stereo tuned to my preferred radio station of late. It's an analogue-dial physical tuner rather than a nice digital gizmo,

Comments

[silmaril]

I listen to the radio in the car all the time, and I haven't had any worse reception than usual. Perhaps something happened to your car antenna?

[tombfyre]

Yeah, I've been getting signal drift on my radio as well, both in the car and at home. My work radio seems a wee bit on the scratchy side too. But if I stay close enough to one of the larger repeaters, it works well enough. :3

[kymri]

I notice all kinds of variation. I listen to the iPod a lot, but when not listening to the iPod, my radio listening is (in descending order of priority, just going by amount of hours listened) is generally: 97.7 (KFFG - KFOG's Los Altos transmitter) -> 104.5 (KFOG - this gets sketchy south of 84 or so on 101, where the Los Altos broadcast works better), 107.7 (KSAN - 'The Bone' and certainly not the country station anymore), 98.5 (KUFX, 'K-FOX', but there's no real furry connection, just Sharks games and classic rock) and 105.3 (KITS, I think, alternative/whatever).

I'll notice that depending on weather, which KFOG/KFFG station gets better reception in a different area can dramatically change.

Of course, I haven't been tracking seasonal drift, and my car is digitally tuned.

Either way I have long known that 280/Page Mill is in a little bowl that's a black hole for radio reception of all sorts.

[hafoc]

I haven't noticed, but there are several reasons why I wouldn't.

Living in The Sticks the radio stations I listen to are either right here or weak anyway, pretty much. The one modestly distant station I listen to is going on air and off air with antenna repairs this month, so if I did have problems with it from solar activity I would never know that was what it was anyhow.

[araquan]

Been having some problems getting FM lately but I strongly suspect it's my radio starting to die.