I don't mean by just DXing, Everyday Listening & your fav Radio Station to Listen too?
Past or present?
In the past, I'd listen to stations like KABL, KFRC, and a little later, KCCL (KOOL 101.9) and a handful of others, including KXBX Lakeport. Would also listen to KGO and KCBS from time to time too (especially during 2004-2009).
In the present, I don't really listen to much of anything except KCBS, and KXBX when I'm in Lakeport, because of all these, they are the only two that still exist in forms that resemble what they were 20 years ago. As for what I'd listen to them on, it was pretty much either in the car, or with any old piece of junk boombox or portable radio that worked; I didn't care so much about sound quality then, though I began to by the early-mid 2000s (but by then the fun was nearing its end, so I began to lose interest and concentrated on listening to vinyl and Reel-To-Reel tapes instead).
KABL? Gone (it's Bloomberg Radio now). And KFRC? Well, the AM disavowed secular oldies and converted to catholicism back in 2005 and hasn't looked back, and after lingering as a decent but stale classic hits formatted station with an iffy signal, the FM eventually became a glorified, 80kW Class B KCBS translator.
Even at that, KCBS and KXBX were, in my opinion, better 20 years ago. in 2004, for example, KCBS was about the same, but with actually better news coverage, more fun on-air banter (I remember when the morning traffic guy, after beginning to say who sponsored the traffic report, realized that there was none, and after stammering for a second, he declared that he would sponsor himself) and actually somewhat fewer commercials and PSAs, and they were better (even the
commercials were better!), but KXBX was a MOYL affiliate then, and at some point they flipped to an average-sounding classic hits format, which is OK, but not quite the same (I liked it as a MYOL station better, because it reminded me of the by then defunct KABL, right down to some of the talent (most notably, Bill Moen in the mornings; it amazes me that for all those years, he and I were basically in the same area, our paths probably crossed numerous times. It's sad that he's dead now, but it would've been a pleasure to have met him, as I heard he was rather humble, accessible and very pleasant and friendly as radio celebrities go).
Anyway, nowadays I care quite a bit more about quality, so I'll listen on my nice Sangean PR-D4W or my less nice, but decently sensitive RadioShack DX-398 (especially for shortwave), or maybe my Sony CFS-6000 boombox that I recently refurbished (I even got the tape deck playing reasonably well!) because it does AM Stereo
and it has a wide bandwidth mode that makes local stations sound pretty good, such as they are.
As for DXing, If I'm in the mood and conditions are decent, I'll DX KYNO or KEJB (KEJB in particular seems to come in remarkably well most nights, despite its low power. I'm sure there's some salt water enhancement going on, since it's relatively near the coast, as am I). Sometimes KRKK comes in too, but usually with more fading. Before they flipped to Indian Punjabi music earlier this year, I'd enjoy KVIN 920 quite a bit (I'd say it was probably my main favorite, mainly because it didn't always require extraordinary effort to DX, but also because it was close enough that I could actually receive it in the daytime (every other decent station, except the whispers of KXBX I heard a week or two ago, is only receivable via skywave at night). The only thing that kept me form listening to it more was that slop from the BIN on 910 blocked it most of the time during the later afternoon and evening hours
EDIT: Oh! I also tried out Radio Disney KMCY at 1310 AM (Indian Punjabi music now), and for a time in the late 90s, I listened to a bit of Young Country KYCY 93.3, which I recently learned was the former KYA-FM (it's Spanish KRZZ now) and Froggy 92.9 KFGY (this one still exists, although I rarely listen anymore as I grew bored of modern Country and decided I didn't like it too much).
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