I was watching a newscast last night with a story about 911 operators hundreds of miles away taking their calls.
And while I don't record the entire newscast, they had a story coming up which I suspect was about ham radio operators.
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And while I don't record the entire newscast, they had a story coming up which I suspect was about ham radio operators.
There's lots of chatter on the ham bands about the storm and the recovery efforts, and Broadcastify.com is carrying live audio of an emergency net being run on an Asheville area 2-meter repeater.
Read it, you're still not average.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Okay, I don't get this at all. Why is acknowledging what @semoochie said about not being an "average listener" creating an argument?
I don't know. Not sure if he thinks he's average because he owns to a twenty plus year old radio, or what he's arguing exactly.
I read Semoochie’s post as though he was saying he knew he wasn’t average.
And I confirmed, he isn't.
There was a study a couple years ago that indicated that around 68% percent of Americans have a radio in the home, according to Edison Research. 58% percent have 'one to three' radios in the home, 10% have 4 or more.
The summary doesn't make it really clear whether car radios were included as being 'in the home' or in the 'household'. The way the summary is worded, however, makes it appear that they're referring to actual radios in the house (as they question whether they've been replaced by smart speakers instead).
The numbers have declined since 2008.
www.edisonresearch.com
The summary doesn't make it really clear whether car radios were included as being 'in the home' or in the 'household'. The way the summary is worded, however, makes it appear that they're referring to actual radios in the house (as they question whether they've been replaced by smart speakers instead).
The numbers have declined since 2008.
Two-Thirds of Americans Have at Least One Radio in Their Home
New information from the Infinite Dial 2020® from Edison Research and Triton Digital shows that 68% of all Americans say they have at least one radio in their home. The average home now has 1.5 radios, down from double that number in 2008.
www.edisonresearch.com
And I have about 6, I think. Maybe more. But all are either emergency radios in a drawer or box or stored in the garage. None is available to "turn on" quickly in less than 10 to 15 minutes.
Those are "in the home" and not in the car.
Your assumption is right,
Because 2008 was the year when Smart Phones went on the market. But it took a while for people to adopt them (it took me about 72 hours, though).
In 2022 they published the demographic breakdown from that study, and 57% of people under 35 owned zero radios.
Take a look at how the "zero radio" percent is growing. 4 to 10 to 21 to 32. Every four years. By 2022, it was 38. It's very possible that number now is close to 45%.
Infinite Dial Preview Examines Number Of Radios In The Home.
As audio listening on smart speakers and mobile phones increases, many more people now report having no radios in their home, according to the forthcoming Infinite Dial 2022 study from
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I'd believe it. The phone has taken over, although the survey mentions the smart speaker as replacing radios in the home as well.In 2022 they published the demographic breakdown from that study, and 57% of people under 35 owned zero radios.
Take a look at how the "zero radio" percent is growing. 4 to 10 to 21 to 32. Every four years. By 2022, it was 38. It's very possible that number now is close to 45%.
Infinite Dial Preview Examines Number Of Radios In The Home.
As audio listening on smart speakers and mobile phones increases, many more people now report having no radios in their home, according to the forthcoming Infinite Dial 2022 study fromwww.insideradio.com
Just remember a smart speaker is an internet radio, not an AM/FM radio. So anything it receives is via the internet. Not broadcast.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I have a couple of portable radios here. The one that I can access fastest is right next to my bed, in a ziploc bag. It is also the one that has a hand crank to recharge its internal battery.
In addition, my clock radio (no, I refuse to use the alarm function on my phone) has a 9V backup battery which will keep the clock running and allow the radio to play without taking up any juice to operate the digital display.
For a one-person household, I think that's pretty good.
This is kind of off-topic, but why don't you want to use the alarm function on your phone? It's a lot easier to set than the clock radio......unless you want to wake up to radio music instead of just the alarm sound. But, on your phone, you can choose different ring tones for wake-up.
I don't think you can actually wake up to a song on your phone........just a tone, like chimes, or woodblock tones, or something like that.
But it's a lot easier to say to the phone, "Siri, set the alarm for 8 A.M.", then to have to reach to the back of the clock and set the numerals. On a clock radio, if you're too tired or distracted, one can accidentally set the alarm for p.m. instead of a.m., then you oversleep and are late to work. Or, the radio tuner slips ever so slightly, so you wake up to loud static, instead of the radio station. Just saying. Sorry to be off-topic.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
First, my clock radio has two separate settings, each one tuned to a different station. And I never need to change the time on either, so that's not an issue. I haven't changed the settings in literally years.
Second, yes ... I prefer to wake up to music (KTWV) or news (KNX).
Third, Siri can't help me because it's an Android phone. (I do wish people would stop presuming that everyone has an iPhone. A lot of us don't.)
Fourth, my clock radio is entirely set with front panel buttons.
Fifth, clock radios with digital tuners do not "slip".
'kay?
(Oh, one more thing. This was a present from my late mother from around 1999-2000. It still works perfectly and I'm not giving it up until it, like her, is dead.)
I'm surprised that this has gotten any traction at all. I was responding to David's post which read, "
- AM radios made in the last four or five decades are not capable of anything even approaching the theoretical AM fidelity and bandwidth.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Thank you for confirming what I had interpreted you saying all along. I agree that in one way more was read into the original statement than was said, and in another not enough attention paid to your response.
I think there may be some confusion here about content versus delivery method. If someone asked me if I listen to AM radio I might say yes. But I haven't listened to it OTA for about a decade. Just streaming.
Yes, that's fine ! I appreciate your response. Not meaning to upset you. For the cell phone voice assistant, I don't assume that everyone has an i-phone. I was just thinking that any smart phone would have a voice assistant ( regardless of name) that would set the alarm. I should have said, "ask the voice assistant on your smart phone, in order to be more generic).
Also, if your clock radio has a digital tuner, then that's certainly the way to go, because you don't have to fiddle with the tuning mechanism. ( My clock radio, a Sony "dream machine" is probably 40 years old now, so it's older than your clock radio from the millenium.). -- D.
I've listened to AM since 1997 or 98 using streaming. The first AM station I ever streamed was Virgin Radio 1215 AM from London. If there were KC AM stations streaming back then, I'm not sure. Since I went to unlimited data, I just stream AM but sometimes I'll listen to FM in my car.
When I was living in Iowa City, KCJJ was apparently having a problem with their signal. I ran into Steve and he asked me if I'd heard anything weird, since he knew I listened every day. I said I streamed the station most of the time, other than when I was driving, but I hadn't heard anything weird. I never found out what the problem was.