Informal pole: physical radio

[JH_Radio]

Yep I'm wondering if anybody has a physical radio in their house that they use to listen to the radio.
If so, is it a home tuner, a portible unit, a receiver?
I've got several radios here.
Rotel RT-1084 and Sony XDR-F1HD for home tuners.
For my travel radio I have a CC Radio EPPro, the CCRadio 2E that someone is borrowing the 2E. I love radios! I've tried the Supre Radio III but its headphone output is not flat. I have a Meduci AMX2000 and soon will be getting a Carver TX-11B and a Maduci MW-2A PLL. Both Maduci's ar wideband AM Stereo tuners.
I'd love to get a Sansui Tu-X1 someday!
I've had a Yamaha T-85 in the past.
John

 

[TheBigA]

Do you mean POLL?

Because a pole is something very different.

pole
a long, slender, rounded piece of wood or metal, typically used with one end placed in the ground as a support for something.
"a tent pole"

 

[JH_Radio]

Did not know that the word had two different spellings. nor did I know they meant two different things depending on the spelling. I'm using a screen reader and haven't seen that written out in context in braille . But yes, I meant poll.
John

 

[davideduardo]

Because a pole is something very different.

You mean someone from Poland?

We are well on are way to a Weird Al song.

(I know, Al is Slavic... but he has an accordion)

 

[TheBigA]

But yes, I meant poll.
John

OK, on to your question: Does it have to be a traditional FM radio with an antenna, or can it be a digital device that also receives FM stations, such as an Amazon Echo or Google Home? There are lots of ways to listen to FM without actually owning a vintage device.

There have been polls like this done, and respondents who are unfamiliar with devices say they don't own a radio, when in fact they do, but are unaware that it's a radio.

BTW the most recent national poll said that 68% of the homes in the US have at least one radio:

68 percent of homes have at least one radio, with the average home having 1.5 radios as of 2020, both figures being steep declines from 2008.

 

[KeithE4]

An informal pole? Sounds like he needs to do an air czech. But don't be russian into it.

 

[landtuna]

I have perhaps two dozen devices which can receive AM/FM/Digital radio broadcasts but the only one that gets any use is in my minivan. In the past two months I've made two round trips from Tempe to Tucson (roughly a total of 400 miles) which take about 90 minutes each leg (TSL of -/+ 360 minutes). Since most of my driving is local short trips I doubt my normal TSL is more than one hour per month. Since I am the primary driver of the van (wifey has her own vehicle) the radio stays on 93.3 HD2 (AKA The Gold Mine 92.7 FM - Oldies). I normally do not stream or listen to a radio broadcast while at home. And yes, I am retired.

My wife, who is still working, has about a 20 minute daily commute five days per week so her TSL is 400-450 minutes per month. She listens to one of those Bible-beating FM's.

Our adult daughter usually has her phone streaming Spotify and she does listen frequently. Our granddaughter (10) never listens to audio streams or radio.

How would you code that poll response?

 

[ixnay]

Better clam up on the poll/pole jokes, people. JH_Radio is visually impaired if he's using a screen reader, I think.

 

[Kelly A]

You mean someone from Poland?

Or the Festivus Pole, as each year we all gather around and air our grievances.

 

[TheBigA]

A new poll released from Edison Research says that 12% of radio listening is coming from streaming rather than over the air:

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[Steve Green NEPA]

Some great chuckles in the thread. I guess my favorite harmless one was a sportswriter (at least one) plugging the game featuring the Eagles QB Ron Jaworski and the Falcons QB Steve Bartkowski being a showdown between the North Pole and the South Pole.

I have five respectable radios here : A tried-and-true Zenith 'barbershop' 6-tube job from (I guess) the the early 50's, a new-bought Grundig SR 450 'field radio', a GE Superadio 2, a wee Radio Shack 'pocket' portable, and a refitted Hammarlund HQ-180.
Not one of the five is of any use during the day. On each one the entire AM dial sounds like 5,000 eggs frying and using weed-whackers as a spatula. Completely useless -- every flippin one of them. Only the locals and close semi-locals come in -- grudgingly. And those stations are syndicated rubbish anyway.
As the Buggles might've changed those lyrics, 'Put all the blame on the Internet'.

 

[iacd]

I have 6 radios in my house 3 of them are hd radios and the rest are rds capable all of them are portable.

 

[Miguelito]

I have the stereo that came with my car but I don't use the tuner. I listen to my playlists via Apple Car Play. In the house, I have an Onkyo TX-SR304 (with "Cinema Filter") that I bought about a hundred fifty years ago. I don't use the tuner on that either. It's primarily so I can hear my television through my Bose speakers. (I don't know what Cinema Filter is but this receiver does make my television sound pretty spectacular.) Once or twice a year, I take a spin through the dial to hear what's going on but nowadays, I pretty much learn all that from you folks!

 

[JBraddock]

I have around 40 radios, most packed away at this point. I have several high-end tuners, now used as receivers in my home audio distribution system. My receiving antenna was the Channel Master Stereo Probe 9 (see my avatar). Worked wonders in my southern NJ and Fort Washington receiving locations. This was before all the translators and LPFMs cluttered the dial.

Nowadays I check out the local FM reception a couple of times a year with the Sony XDR-F1HD HD tuner and a Fanfare FM-2G whip antenna which I can orient by hand. Primitive, but it works.

One of several GE Superradio 2s, a 3 and a C. Crane CCRadio-EP Pro handle portable DXing duties nicely.

 

[AbrahamJSimpson]

Beyond the cars, probably two or three unused “radios” (including an old school boom box out in the tool shed that may or may not still function. One buried in a basement for the unlikely scenario of a weather disaster without cell coverage. Otherwise, everything Is streamed.

 

[atthestars]

I have a radio in the bedroom, and a radio in my living room. Otherwise, I'm streaming or bluetoothing something off my phone.

 

[gr8oldies]

I have an Infiniti portable FM that gets some use, a Sangean pocket DX ultralight, a clock radio and both cars have radios (my wife's with SiriusXM.). Otherwise it's mostly my laptop or phone, and DXing via SDRs (which I always disclose if I'm reporting).

 

[mofocat]

I will not pay for radio or TV. Back in the days of Napster I got TONS of tunes. Like 20,000. I dont watch TeeBee. I've been a radio addict for 60+ years. Of course nowadays radio is NOT NEAR as interesting as it was 20 or more years ago. I've always had a bunch of radios in the house. A couple years ago I discovered these miniature 'classic style rechargeable from "Gradio" I had to get all of them and in all the available colors. LOL So many I've had in the past and 'let go'. Radio is ALWAYS ON in my house. But mostly it is my own library broadcast over part 15 FM.

 

[drt]

Better clam up on the poll/pole jokes, people. JH_Radio is visually impaired if he's using a screen reader, I think.

Better clam up on the poll/pole jokes, people. JH_Radio is visually impaired if he's using a screen reader, I think.

JH_Radio did mention reading Braille, and I do understand the reader for laptops, that visually impaired users use, sometimes give wrong spellings (just as spell check on laptops and tablets often give the wrong word or spelling for the non-visually impaired). I did work for a little over a year with veterans that had lost their vision and it is amazing what these readers can do, to help the visually impaired communicate online.

 

[kfbkfb]

Reviewing the radios I have around - a lot of Sony radios:
(1973) Sony portable radio (used to receive WOC TV ch 6 audio during the NBC run of Earthquake)
(1984) Sony SRF-A100 (AM stereo never did work, tried WHB and WLS multiple times)
(1994) Sony CFM-165TW [w/cassette w/TV sound w/NOAA radio]
(1995) Sony SRF-42 (AM stereo - worked on WDAF)
(2001) Sony CFD-S36 [w/cassette w/TV sound w/NOAA radio] (listened to the TV audio change to static on the analog TV shutdown day here: 2009-06-12 ~9AM)
(2009) Sony XDR-S3HD (sometimes listened to 1190 AM HD [Radio Disney], now sometimes to the unique FM HD subchannels)
(2018) Sony CFD-S70 [w/cassette] (regular AM + FM stereo listening)
(2020) Sony ICF-P26 (listening when the power goes off)

GE SuperRadio (sometimes listened to KOA)

Pioneer receivers (I don't use the tuners, I can hear the FM audio processing working)

Honda Car Radio [may be a Pioneer] (listened to the most)


Kirk Bayne