The bedside SW is tuned to Radio Taiwan International at 5950, which I often fall asleep to, listening to their current 0200-0400 English stream to NA. Being that bedside radio (actually all my shortwave receivers in the house) is analogue dial, I tend not to move it around much, fearing I won't get back to a station again. And also being that I tend to listen to SW while falling asleep, I purposely find stations that are on at least an hour or more, so I don't have to worry about switching frequencies in my listening.
I still lament not being able to listen to the BBSWS that way, as I used to for years. If I had my choice, that would probably be the one and only SW station I'd listen to, with some periodic RNW thrown in. (As I recently told RNW in their request for comments, I'd be listening to them, instead of RTI, if only they had evening English broadcasts to NA in the 0200-0400 timeslot; their NA schedule has always been either too early in the evening, when I have other evening things to do, or too late, when I am already asleep.) While I have high-speed cable internet at home and bookmarks set aside in my various computer browsers at home and work to get BBC 1-7, BBCWS, RNW, RA, and WRN, I rarely listen to them. For some reason, I just don't enjoy listening to these "stations" via the Internet, nor do I listen to podcasts except to get the occasional archived program that someone might suggest. Static-free signals are not a quest for me - in fact, the fading and static of shortwave actually, in my feeble mind, adds "credibility" to the signal - the content, whatever it is, means more to me knowing it came through the ether. I often tune around the MW broadcast band in the evenings for the same reason. Someday, when a standalone Wi-Fi receiver at the under $139 price comes available, I might bite. I've thought about the C.Crane-type FM transmitters, but I also don't like the idea of leaving my computer on just so I can listen to the BBCWS in the next room or bedroom. (I'm one of those rare people these days who actually turns the computer off when it is not being used. Now if only I could convince my high school-aged kids to do the same....) Cheers/73, Kevin Anderson, Age 48 Dubuque, IA -- ------------------------------------- Kevin Anderson, Dubuque IA USA, K9IUA k9iua (at) yahoo (dot) com http://postoilgeography.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------- ____________________________________________________________________________________ Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or visit the URL shown above.
