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Listening to U.K Radio

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MarioMania

I know there's Globaltuners & Kiwi SDR's to listen to it online

Seeing I can't travel out of Country, I want to hear Radio from Cardiff, Wales like if I was there
or Merthyr Tydfil, UK, Auckland NZ on FM

Is there any other sites besides Globaltuners & Kiwi SDR's?
 
MarioMania said:
I know there's Globaltuners & Kiwi SDR's to listen to it online

Seeing I can't travel out of Country, I want to hear Radio from Cardiff, Wales like if I was there
or Merthyr Tydfil, UK, Auckland NZ on FM

Is there any other sites besides Globaltuners & Kiwi SDR's?
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I use this site, it's also an app:
radio.garden

Radio Garden

Explore live radio by rotating the globe.
radio.garden radio.garden
 
There's also this site (Radiomap.eu), which lists stations on air in different cities around the world and links to their streams:

radiomap.eu

Radio stations in Cardiff, Wales — Radiomap.eu

radiomap.eu radiomap.eu

Merthyr Tydfil doesn't have any stations. I passed through the other week and there was nothing local on the dial, just standard BBC and national network stuff. The closest stations are GTFM and Rhondda Radio, but because the area is made up of deep valleys and high hills, neither has a detectable signal in Merthyr.
 
servers.fmdx.org

FM-DX Webserver List

An interactive map with all the available public FM-DX Webservers. This map is updated automatically. A free way to listen to hundreds of FM tuners worldwide.
servers.fmdx.org servers.fmdx.org

There are many, many FM servers all over EU and the eastern United States, also one in Bermuda that is used A LOT. I have logged some amazing Es from Bermuda's TEF receiver ranging from Newfoundland, to Miami, to Detroit, even New Orleans at 1500 miles, and others have logged tropo into the thousand-mile range. It helps that there are a handful of locals on the island and nothing else for *650 MILES* around it!!
 
crainbebo said:
servers.fmdx.org

FM-DX Webserver List

An interactive map with all the available public FM-DX Webservers. This map is updated automatically. A free way to listen to hundreds of FM tuners worldwide.
servers.fmdx.org servers.fmdx.org

There are many, many FM servers all over EU and the eastern United States, also one in Bermuda that is used A LOT. I have logged some amazing Es from Bermuda's TEF receiver ranging from Newfoundland, to Miami, to Detroit, even New Orleans at 1500 miles, and others have logged tropo into the thousand-mile range. It helps that there are a handful of locals on the island and nothing else for *650 MILES* around it!!
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These FM DX servers are a bit of a pain, as they only allow one user at the same time, and a lot of radio "enthusiasts" have never been socialized in how to share. Time after time, I've been using one of these and someone has logged in and either started tuning randomly or flipped it straight to a favorite station. It's pretty much impossible during openings or in interesting locations as you tend to have six people all bouncing the tuner around constantly.

With all the SDR technology we have these days which would allow multiple people to listen to multiple frequencies at once (like the KiwiSDRs), it's odd that "plugging a computer into a cheap radio with a TEF chip" is the technology that's taken off for online FM tuners. It's also not the best for listening to what's available in a given area any more, as DAB is where most stations and listeners are in the UK, FM is pretty much legacy at this point.

Anyway, for the OP there's one of these tuners (at the time of writing) online in North Devon which looks across water to South Wales and receives the stations from there. They can hear the exciting sound of lots of voicetracked stations playing the same track at the same time.
 
Try this site. A little clunky, but includes not only conventional radio stations but Live365 streams and low-power specialty stations (including at least a dozen UK "hospital radio" services. If you have Xfinity internet and/or TV, it's available as a free app.

www.radioline.co

Radios, Podcasts and Replays from around the world for free | Radioline

Discover a world of radios and podcasts with Radioline. Listen to your favorite radio stations (FM, AM, DAB, Webradio) and podcasts from all your devices with our local, national and international catalogs.
www.radioline.co www.radioline.co
 
CTListener said:
Try this site. A little clunky, but includes not only conventional radio stations but Live365 streams and low-power specialty stations (including at least a dozen UK "hospital radio" services. If you have Xfinity internet and/or TV, it's available as a free app.

www.radioline.co

Radios, Podcasts and Replays from around the world for free | Radioline

Discover a world of radios and podcasts with Radioline. Listen to your favorite radio stations (FM, AM, DAB, Webradio) and podcasts from all your devices with our local, national and international catalogs.
www.radioline.co www.radioline.co
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I tried listening to a hospital radio station, but I got sick of it!
 
radiofan2023 said:
I tried listening to a hospital radio station, but I got sick of it!
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I can hear one here from out in the suburbs on 1350 AM. They only use one or two watts of AM power, so they aren't the strongest. I'm not really sure who is carrying an AM radio around a hospital to listen in 2025, either.

For some reason, you never hear "Another One Bites The Dust", "Stairway To Heaven" or "The Drugs Don't Work" on there.
 
CTListener said:
How do you even program such a station? You'll find people of all ages in hospitals, not just the elderly.
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In my experience, the answer is "badly". They always were more for the benefit of the people involved than for the hospital patients. A lot of radio talent of the past came through hospital radio volunteering, but there are so many other avenues nowadays, many of which don't really involve radio at all. Gone are the days of hospital patients being regaled with three hours of some spotty teen playing Limp Bizkit.

Now that patients in hospital have access to all the same devices, streaming platforms and entertainment as people on the outside (most hospitals have free patient wi-fi now), hospital radio feels a bit redundant. Some stations have repurposed themselves as general local radio stations and de-emphasized their link to the hospital, while many others have closed down altogether.
 
Miss Tuned said:
I can hear one here from out in the suburbs on 1350 AM. They only use one or two watts of AM power, so they aren't the strongest. I'm not really sure who is carrying an AM radio around a hospital to listen in 2025, either.

For some reason, you never hear "Another One Bites The Dust", "Stairway To Heaven" or "The Drugs Don't Work" on there.
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Or "Who Wants to Live Forever", "Doctor Doctor", "Bad Case of Loving You"....
Miss Tuned said:
In my experience, the answer is "badly". They always were more for the benefit of the people involved than for the hospital patients. A lot of radio talent of the past came through hospital radio volunteering, but there are so many other avenues nowadays, many of which don't really involve radio at all. Gone are the days of hospital patients being regaled with three hours of some spotty teen playing Limp Bizkit.

Now that patients in hospital have access to all the same devices, streaming platforms and entertainment as people on the outside (most hospitals have free patient wi-fi now), hospital radio feels a bit redundant. Some stations have repurposed themselves as general local radio stations and de-emphasized their link to the hospital, while many others have closed down altogether.
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Do you know when they started closing down?
 
The Lynmouth North Devon SDR FM-DX is offline

I was listening to it last night, I was on 107.3 Nation Radio Wales 1.25kw from Kilvey Hill, a hill on the outskirts of Swansea

But there's a 107.3 in Bargoed relaying Heart South Wales like 40 miles apart I can't find how many Watts is it
 
MarioMania said:
I was only joking Miss Tuned
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It's normally customary to say thank you when someone searches out information for you. By total coincidence, I'd actually recently been in Merthyr Tydfil (why there? It's an obscure town) and scanned the dial while there so I know what's on the radio there, and I know what the nearest few stations are. If you want UK radio information, I'm probably best placed to dig it up for you, but I don't feel particularly inclined to do so as you're a bit rude.
 
Miss Tuned said:
I can hear one here from out in the suburbs on 1350 AM. They only use one or two watts of AM power, so they aren't the strongest. I'm not really sure who is carrying an AM radio around a hospital to listen in 2025, either.

For some reason, you never hear "Another One Bites The Dust", "Stairway To Heaven" or "The Drugs Don't Work" on there.
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I have no idea about Hospital radio in the U.K., but in the U.S. I heard a Part 15 outside a nursing home called "Comfort Radio", with a mix of old time radio shows.big band music and medical info.
 
I think the only hospital-type station I know of was the old WDAS-1480 (102.5 translator) Philly several years back, before they went to Fox Sports. It was called Breakthrough Radio, iHeart-owned and a partnership with Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Lots of '60s-'10s 'feel-good' pop music and some health tidbits in between songs, also a few commercials here and there.

Some children's hospitals, like Cook Children's Hospital in Fort Worth, have live television channels for patients. That hospital's in-house channel has arts/crafts shows and quizzes where patients can win prizes.
 


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