Does anyone else like FM radio?

[Sal1950]

Like many people, the take over of talk over music has stopped me treating it as a serious source.

It's very true that's what almost completely happened to the AM band.

Has that really happened to FM where your located?
All the FM rock, country, and classical stations that I'm aware of in both the Chicago and Central FL. demo's are still broadcasting the same genre as they were decades ago.

 

[xanalog]

OT:

When I was in grad school (and before we moved to a brand new building in the 1980s) we did a number of impromptu studies on the effects of microwave radiation on cockroaches in our lab. They're pretty resistant.

...Slow poison that they take and feed to each other, then they all die.

These are sounding like "Crimes against Animality" to me;
World Animal Justice and some Buddhist Monk calls this zoocide (aka speciescide).

The PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) organization advocates that animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, or use for entertainment, arguing that all species deserve freedom from human control and suffering.

I was more ethical than either of you 2:
I used live in a converted loft, in an old 3-story factory building. The creaky wood floors would allow the roaches to come and listen to expensive audio gear.
Instead of splattering their bodies on floor, I used to trap them under a drinking glass and leave them there.
I firmly believed (biased?) that they were sending distress signals to other roaches, to avoid the 3rd-floor crazy guy...
You know: Like in the 'mm range' and like @EJ3 does!

 

[EJ3]

OT:


These are sounding like "Crimes against Animality" to me;
World Animal Justice and some Buddhist Monk calls this zoocide (aka speciescide).

I was more ethical than either of you 2:
I used live in a converted loft, in an old 3-story factory building. The creaky wood floors would allow the roaches to come and listen to expensive audio gear.
Instead of splattering their bodies on floor, I used to trap them under a drinking glass and leave them there.
I firmly believed (biased?) that they were sending distress signals to other roaches, to avoid the 3rd-floor crazy guy...
You know: Like in the 'mm range' and like @EJ3 does!

Some how, I don't think that it is possible to get rid of all the roaches. But it is possible to mostly keep them out of your house most of the time.

 

[EJ3]

It's very true that's what almost completely happened to the AM band.

Has that really happened to FM where your located?
All the FM rock, country, and classical stations that I'm aware of in both the Chicago and Central FL. demo's are still broadcasting the same genre as they were decades ago.

There was 1 great rock station in Saipan from when I got there in Oct 2003 until one of the many times that I was gone to S. Korea for months at a time, in 2015.
I had a friend that was from Saipan (a deer whisperer [he'd get them in the bed of his truck with his two youngest children {boy 8, girl 10} and ride to the beach so the deer & the kids could play on the beach). But, venison was on their menu, just not these two deer), who was/is a big straight ahead rock fan.
When I came back from this particular trip and tuned to the 'good rock' station, it was playing all disco all the time.
I went up the 1,555 ft Mt. Tapacho (from sea level: mountain, because if you stick Mt. Everest into the water near it [which would be in the Marianas trench]), the locals say that Mt. Everest would be under water), to visit him, (he owns a bunch of land near the top) and asked what the hell happened to the radio station that we listened to all the time.
He said that nothing was said that he knew of, he just turned it on and it was disco.
And, at least up until I left in May of 2017, it stayed DISCO.
What a shame!

 

[xanalog]

We don't need to discuss it, as some lame-brain will make it go a bit too political... but this is about FM:

From <https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation...-order-to-end-federal-funding-for-pbs-and-npr>

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[Sal1950]

And, at least up until I left in May of 2017, it stayed DISCO.

Disco in 2017? I thought we in Chicago killed disco in 1979 with Disco Demolition Night, aka The Day Disco Died LOL

 

[Ssb1]

It does depend on how good an aerial you have and nowadays people have forgotten you need one

Before CD the best quality classical music audio I could get at home was BBC Radio 3 live broadcasts and with my excellent aerial the tuner connected to my home stereo

Out of pure interest Frank, do you have a Ron Smith aerial (or similar)? I’ve done a fair bit of research on those, while I only have an externally mounted omni FM antenna, duplexed with the TV antenna on the same pole. While the current setup works for me, I always remain curious

 

[EJ3]

Disco in 2017? I thought we in Chicago killed disco in 1979 with Disco Demolition Night, aka The Day Disco Died LOL

That was what made it TRULLY annoying!

 

[Frank Dernie]

Out of pure interest Frank, do you have a Ron Smith aerial (or similar)? I’ve done a fair bit of research on those, while I only have an externally mounted omni FM antenna, duplexed with the TV antenna on the same pole. While the current setup works for me, I always remain curious

I have had the same 6 element FM aerial for 40 years or so! Mounted on a chimney.

 

[sergeauckland]

I have had the same 6 element FM aerial for 40 years or so! Mounted on a chimney.

Me too. I had two TV and the FM antennas installed in 1986 when we moved into the house. The 6 element FM antenna is pointed at Tacolneston some 40 miles away, but pulls in an adequate signal. An 8 element might have been better, as at the time I had Quad FM4 tuner, not the most sensitive. However, I later changed to a Meridian 204 tuner that was more sensitive, and I now use an AIWA tuner in my study, and signal strength as good as it needs to be.

I just wish there was more on FM than BBC Radio 3 worth listening to that isn't processed to buggery. Having said that, BBC Radio 2 is probably the best processed FM station in the UK for sound quality, Optimod done right! Pity I don't care for the programmes.

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