[Elecraft] OT: radio broadcast commercials

[Dan KB6NU]

The two classical stations that I listen to over the Internet are:

1. KWAX (www.kwax.com) from the University of Oregon. The UofO mascot  
is the duck, so I love the play on words in their choice of callsign.
2. WKAR (www.wkar.org) from Michigan State University.

These two feeds are both 128 kbps or better and both sound really great.

73!

Dan KB6NU
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On Feb 11, 2007, at 9:26 AM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> Interesting that you mention the FM Broadcast band predominance of
> commercials.  They irritate me too, but I have settled on a local
> non-commercial FM station here.  They broadcast only classical  
> music, but it
> is listener supported and NO commercials and is available 24 hours  
> a day.
>
> BTW, if anyone wants to hear what I am talking about, you too can  
> listen
> worldwide - they stream on the internet in 5 formats and are  
> available on
> C-band and Ku-band as well.  Any local cable company can retransmit  
> their
> feed free!  If you are interested in some nice commercial free  
> classical
> music, check out http://www.theclassicalstation.org/
>
> Apologies for the reflector bandwidth to those not interested.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> I didn't even know that folk still listened to AM Broadcast  
>> anymore, HI
>> HI!  Just as a side note I've even found FM to become more  
>> annoying to
>> listen to and have recently switched to one of the satellite based
>> radios which I thought I would never do, but it is much more  
>> pleasant to
>> listen to what I intend to tune into rather than the many commercials
>> that plague the commercial broadcast stations otherwise.  I used to
>> constantly switch between various FM stations whenever I heard a
>> commercial, and found that I was doing that more than I was  
>> listening to
>> music, but not anymore.  It seemed that radio stations were  
>> coordinating
>> their commercial times, as it seems that TV stations do as well.  Oh,
>> sorry for my digression from the Elecraft topic at hand, though,  
>> that of
>> 160m QRP activity.
>>
>> Mark, NK8Q
>>
>>
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