Does anyone else like FM radio?

[J. Lohmann]

Okay...please see my comment before yours regarding what I meant by my original statement.

 

[xanalog]

Okay...please see my comment before yours regarding what I meant by my original statement.

The above reply must be for you, @mhardy6647!
Since my comments never have any originality; it must be your turn to comment to the comment @J. Lohmann is making.

 

[mhardy6647]

The above reply must be for you, @mhardy6647!
Since my comments never have any originality; it must be your turn to comment to the comment @J. Lohmann is making.

Yes, it was... yes it is. I have no further comment.

Oh. We did the Steely Dan/no static at all thing already in this thread, didn't we?

I have this... someplace... on LP. In my defense, it was a town dump "swap pile" find.

 

[Hapo]

...listening now...WSHU...

 

[pablolie]

i used to LOVE fm radio in the mid 90s. listening to some stations presented you with great new music you fell in love with. now all my fav FM stations in the california bay area are dead, or have changed their format to be inrecognizable to me. i discover new music in other and more actualized ways. fm stations are pretty much dead to me in the san francisco bay area. my experience may not translate to other places.

 

[Somafunk]

Fiio RR13 arrived earlier and initial build impressions are positive, fits nice in the hand but a clip for the back (as on my 25yr old Sony SRF-M10) or a built in fold out kickstand would be a sensible choice.

Before I take it outside and try it out/use it..... 3 nitpicks - the battery door is built of brittle plastic and is not attached as it is on the Sony so may be easy to lose/break, it would have made sense to increase the width of the RR13 by 5mm to allow for the telescoping aerial to be internal and finally......the tuning wheel needs to have an increased sensitive gearing as the slightest movement will cause large movement in the tuning window.

It can only pick up BBC R3 FM station in my house despite using the aerial and that was only in mono and rather crackly (the Sony does pick all BBC FM stations inside with a high signal strength but obviously uses the earphone cord as an aerial) so I'll take the RR13 outside later and give it a tune to see what it can pick up.

 

[Somafunk]

Hmmmm, I'll be sending the radio back tomorrow as it can only pick up a very weak mono signal in my area despite my other small radios (Sony mentioned above) being able to pick up stereo. I took a drive out into the bay here where I live and could barely get a mono signal without the aerial and even with the aerial I failed to find a stereo signal anywhere despite receiving a strong (relative) 42 dBuV signal on my other portable radio.

Perhaps its my area of Galloway/Scotland and it may work well elsewhere but its rather pointless to consider keeping it as an ornament.

Oh...well....hope the RR15 will turn out to be better

 

[xanalog]

Finding this pair on eBay was a shocker.

Although the old-man was an old-skool ME, he used his HeathKit SB-401 for half-a decade, until he decided he HAD to build himself the SB-303 (...HW-9, in tow).
More-or-Less: I was too busy -in NYC punk scene- to care!

ADD: This post would have been appropriate in the "Knob" thread but fingers are too numb!

 

[xanalog]

Fiio RR13 arrived earlier a....
...

Hmmmm, I'll be sending the radio back tomorrow as it can only pick up a very weak mono signal in my area despite my other small radios (Sony mentioned above) being able to pick up stereo.

Sad to hear your FiiO was a nO-gO.
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OT: It is hard to keep up, anymore.
It all started with the 18650.
Then, came the 18350; followed by the 16340. I even have a few 10180s.
These standardized Lithium-Ion types were followed on by 21700, 26650, 14500, 10440, ...

I had to look up the one inside your FiiO, which google says is a 14430.
*It is near the diameter of an AA battery (at 14500)
*Many "14430" models are also sold on the market that are 3.2V LiFePO4 (for solar garden lights)
*Some of these models may or may not contain a ProtectionCircuitModule
*If model is w/a PCM; then, they are like a pack of 101s... which used to be "silly-millimeter longer!"
*Lithium-Polymers (pouch types) are a class all on their own but they still share the Li-Ion's 3.7V/cell nominal voltage.

 

[EJ3]

I used to care!
So much so that, I may be a member-unicorn who even owned a few (tweaked) CB radios (pre-radar days) so that we knew where the 'ticket masters' were hiding...

These 2 'toys may be pushing us into the OT zone:
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\/\/ ICOM IC-R1 \/\/
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OT+ >> The ICOM IC-R1 had the cordless-phone frequencies blocked (stoopid FCC) and mine had to be sent to Canada in order to unblock them...
...'unblocked" not because I was an eavesdropper but the last time I had checked the airwaves still belonged to the people.
and if you want secure communications; then the onus is on you to encrypted them and not to push FCC to un-allocate that band.

That too!

 

[J. Lohmann]

 

[J. Lohmann]

Yes, it was... yes it is. I have no further comment.

Why is that?

 

[xanalog]

In the good old days, it was fun to have the pilot signals beat with the bias oscillator frequency when using an analog tape recorder to steal, umm, I mean, of course, archive FM radio programming on an analog tape recorder. "Air checks".

But was it?
If caught; we may have shared a cell for such blasphemy!

 

[mhardy6647]

Why is that?

comment's superfluous.

 

[mhardy6647]

I'd rather talk about FM radios...
or at least look at, or maybe even listen to, FM radios.

Let's see what's still layin' around and not shared in the context of this thread...

I am still kind of beguiled by this one. Stereo vacuum tube table radio!
Another "swap pile find" from the Harvard dump. It works fine, but it's an AC-DC series string transformerless "killer" chassis. I don't use it much.

 

[J. Lohmann]

comment's superfluous.

Meaning?

 

[mhardy6647]

Radio Shack, at one point, ripped off paid homage to the Henry Kloss aesthetic in radio tuning schemes.

 

[mhardy6647]

 

[EJ3]

I hope to have one of these (if it is the one with a separate speaker for stereo).

I have an ADVENT 300 receiver whose primary use these days is FM.

 

[mhardy6647]

I don't have the matching loudspeaker for that (yellowed) 400, unfortunately.