Radio Question

I am a painter and wear a radio all day everyday. I have an HD radio that attaches to my arm, and I wear headphones. Sounds like you need a home radio like this http://www.yoursourcedirect.com/item...oduct%20Search though you can just hook up a speaker to the portable one. I like the portable one with headphones because the music follows you, it also is charged with a usb cable. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Insignia...&skuId=9375071

Nice thing about hd, is a lot of stations have second and third stations, that have NO COMMERCIALS, usually play music not normally heard on on commercial stations. here is a list of every station in America http://www.hdradio.com/stations you should be able to listen to some of them online first.

There is also iheartradio.com, which is every station in america, you kind find anything there and it is free, but you have to listen to it through a computer or app.

I use 2 radios at my home. One is the receiver for the home theater with a T-type antenna for FM. The other is a Grundig G3 that I use mostly for shortwave and as an emergency radio to find out about local closures during storms. I also listen to music on it when I am upstairs reloading. I picked that up at Radioshack when it was on sale. The shortwave is interesting and I can pick up Cuban propoganda, ham radio, and even navigation buoy signals from the coast. Morse code from a buoy does get old after a while since all these ones transmit is their ID over and over again.

Both of these options have excellent reception at least compared to the radios in my cars. I am able to receive stations from at least Portland and Seattle. The Grundig has some of the features you don't want but I have not found them to be troublesome. If you happened to already have the home theater receiver that might save some money.

We rarely listen to radio anymore. "Sez You" and "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" and sometimes "Performance Today" are about it. Talk radio has turned to stuff that is designed to inflame anger and negative thinking, which is just added stress. There is only so much repetition of music playlists that I can stand, and I hate most commercials.

What I have found good is downloading from here:
http://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio
The old time radio shows are great. Sherlock Holmes or Nero Wolfe, Fibber McGee & Molly, and many others are available for free download with no copyright issues (for now).

I didn't click that link to see if it will work with dial up (I will later). One station 30 miles away has some of that type broadcasting and usually I can get it during the day hours, but fades at night to nonlistenable static. That station and some "local" public broadcast stations, that won't come in clear are my main focus to be able to listen to. Those give a decent variety (if I could get them) and a usually clear FM station (I can only stand country music so long).

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I am looking at what is available as I have time.

AM/FM portable radio recommendations?

Check out this thread. We have 3 of the Sony radios that I mentioned. I get clear reception from stations that are 40 or more miles away.

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I use the Sangean DT-120 radio from Office Depot. It uses one AAA battery, comes with ear buds and has a great sound for a tiny radio, and picks up stations out of Louisville which is 60+ miles away. I like the fact that it easily fits into my chest pocket and it's non-electric. Cost was about $40.

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Yes I have one one them, they are great little radios.
But I wanted something to "reach out" that is why I went with the Ccrane ones. But those GE's are very good. Now I can reach out and listen to the stations 100's of miles away when I want to listen to Coast to Coast AM (formally Art Bell)
And those Ccrane ones have better fine tuning into the frequency then most other radios do. Even if I have a nice AM/FM receiver for my sound surround system they don't really put the technology into the radio side of things but into the sound surround side of things. LOL

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Probably the most recommended (low budget) radio for people who are into DXing the AM radio waves is the GE Superadio. On a clear night I can listen to AM stations all around the U.S., Mexico, and Canada with the Superadio.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXing

http://www.davidmoisan.org/radio/sup.../gesr_faq.html

The Superadio has quite a following as a DX radio. Hobbists have even made videos of their DXing. Check the one below out.

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