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Listening by frequency

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benale

I have a couple of Grace Internet radios,and of course my Smartphone has even more stations. Being semi retired(I still work on air on a part time basis after 43 years) I am always amazed at the sheer number of stations to listen to. Besides making a living in radio, listening to different stations around the country and the world has always been fascinating. I was your typical DXer, marveling at all the distant stations I could get on my radio, and I still enjoy it, but with access to so many stations on the net,I am always figuring out how to sample as many as I could. I finally discovered going by frequency, starting at 540AM and 92.1 FM and going up, this may be the perfect way to sample radio. I'll skip foreign language, religious, hard core rap and hard rock stations, but I'll stop by everything else. Morning drive is the best time to sample the "AM band" because so many stations program locally produced shows. I'll also hit between the FM standard band ie 92.2 and 92.4 to get a sampling of European and Australian stations.

There is a lot of sameness,obviously, but it's a kick listening to local commercials and the jocks. I just started this ongoing hobby. Stations like WVLT and WLNG on 92.1 with a wide oldies library are interesting, as well as the more specialized formats like Classic Country, Standards and 50's 60's oldies. On my Grace radio, I have to go through three lists..the general stations, IHeart and now CBS has a separate category.

It's fun, keeps me occupied and you never know what gems you'll discover. Anybody else do something similar?
 
On my XiiaLive Smartphone app, each market has its own folder and stations are organized by frequency AM, then FM; HD 2's and 3's wherever possible. I have 38 markets so far and a total of 1,420 stations at my fingertips
 
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