Mrs Pere still listens to FM despite the sat radio subscription. How she can stomach all the ads is beyond me.
I only listen to my own music or (usually) audiobooks from my phone through Apple CarPlay on my car stereo.
Mrs Pere still listens to FM despite the sat radio subscription. How she can stomach all the ads is beyond me.
Ours was 93 KHJ Boss Radio. I just looked it up. The station originally started in 1922 long before the rock-n-roll format I knew growing up.
I have a Satellite radio subscription, but it does not work in Hawaii. I can still listen online or via my phone, but it uses data.
There is an excellent Hawaiian music station, AM 940, that I listen to every day. My clock radio alarm is set to that station.
Also, on the drive to North Shore, there are several dead spots for FM but AM940 comes in the whole way, so I often switch to that.
I remember when EVERYBODY in Portland seemed to have one of these stickers on their car. The station would have people cruise around in a van and pull people over and give them cash for showing their KGW stickers.
I've never had the courage to say, "It's me or the cats," because I'm pretty sure how it would shake out. There were times we said, "We're staying together because of the kids." Neither one of us wanted to take them alone.
1922 was when KGW started too!
Wow, maybe that’s when big radio started?
There’s some Los Angeles AM radio station (I can’t remember which one) that’s been around forever. My dad grew up on the coast of Washington. He said he could tune it in up there when he was a kid.
My memory now is telling me that station that came in on the radio telescope was KFI, not KHJ, though I remember both.
The talk about AM radio made me think of the crystal radios that they used to make.
BTW
I've gained between 15-20lbs since Disneyland. We'll basically have been eating out for over a month for every meal.
Damon, when you want crazy good tonkatsu try Tonkatsu Tamafuji on Kapahulu. I heard the lines get super long but we went when they first opened. Best katsu either of us has ever had. Aged pork cooked to perfection. And the tsukemonos (pickled stuff) reminded me of when I was a little kid and my great-grandmother made all of that stuff. Pics on FB
The other place was Tonkatsu Ginza Bairin. Really good too, but not as good as the other place.
BTW
I've gained between 15-20lbs since Disneyland. We'll basically have been eating out for over a month for every meal.
I too made a crystal radio. Also a Shortwave kit with about 20 feet of wire antenna strung from my window to the apricot tree. All I got on that was Radio Moscow. Every so often my dad brought home a huge console radio, 11 bands. I got some crazy shizz on that but never quite knew what it was.
Given all the Apollo 11 stuff going on, I had a miniature Mercury capsule crystal radio. There was a screw that came out of the little end that tuned it.
I used to listen to KNBR 680 out of San Francisco. 50,000 clear channel watts. I college in Pullman, Washington we’d get it when the atmospheric skip was good. AM was great for that. FM is pretty much line of sight.
Those big radio stations were backup navigation beacons for aircraft and ships. They could triangulate from them to find position. That’s why they did station ID so often.