Internet stations for vintage radios
 

Maybe a new internet radio thread but for now just a note on a site I stumbled in to tonight.

Radio Dismuke;

http://www.loudcity.com/stations/radio-dismuke

Click through to listen. Use the Loud City click. 1920's to 1930's platters. Perfect for the AM transmitter. Worked well on my dial-up here in the sticks. If you know of others, add them here.

Dave A

KZQX is a low-power FM station located in Kilgore, TX. They play great big band and standards. They stream on-line and I enjoy listening to them. Here's the link:

http://www.chalkhillmedia.org/kzqx/

Gilbert

http://www.yesterdayusa.com

Does alot of old-time radio shows. Pretty cool.

www.brandoclassicotr.com

Does primarily late 30s to midwar shows. However, they do play the occasional mid-80s BBC production as well.

I am a terrible insomniac and used to listen to shortwave radio via earbuds at night to drown out the dialog in my head...nothing like the BBC World Service, or Radio Tirana Albania to drift off to...but, with the demise of so many international broadcasters, the fall of the Iron Curtain, and dwindling budgets for expensive SWBC facilities, I had to find something else besides that to listen to...I even used to listen to a bunch of my ham buddies on 3880 or 7290 AM, or 3870 SSB, but most of the fellows I knew have moved on, it seems...I also got into listening to Art Bell, and Cost to Coast AM after that, but since that starts at midnight local and I really needed to try and get to sleep earlier, something else needed to be found that didn't get my blood pressure racing listening to what trouble we were in due to this that or the or the other bonehead move by this politician that the other talk radio stations always seemed to have....

Enter Old Time Radio!

I use Winamp with Windoze computers and Shoutcast, search in the Genre search box for "old time radio" and you'll come up with a bunch of "stations"....

I use a couple of mini FM transmitters that I have hooked up to two different computers that I stream two different streams on two different frequencies allowing me to choose between,say, Antioch OTR and Audio Noir from the Nakamichi table radio that now sits on my side of the bed, I like having the selection should I not care for one program or the other...

One of the computers is a PcLinux box, so I use the Shoutcast website and connect to the streams via Firefox and Kaffeine...the code monkeys did some monkeying around with the Shoutcast website recently and Streamtuner for Linux started giving me no results when I would do searches by genre...bummer, it worked a lot like Winamp....

One of these days, though, I'm either going to build or buy a transmitter for the AM band and lets me use, say my old National NC-183D to good effect...

The Sony SW-77, and the 2010 before that, served me well for years for SWBC listening, but now sit unused in the bottom drawer of the side table next to the bed...guess it's time to put them on ebay...

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I listen to this mostly online.
Dan http://www.musicofyourlife.com/

www.otrnow.com and www.wnar-am.com both stream oldtime radio programs as pld time radio. Otrnow is experimenting with streaming video of an old time television format. I listen to Toronto 710 Monday-Thursday from 10:00-11:00 for old time radio programs and the 2 above at the office during the day.

I listen to 740 through my tube Hallicrafters and a pair of old magnetic heardphones. The station also broadcasts music from the '30s on and up to about the early '60s and it ids enjoyable in the car going to work when the traffic is jammed so you do not need the local traffic report from another local radio station.

CHWO 740 should be easily receivable in SE PA at night. I'm a little south of you in New Jersey and I listen to it regularly. It doesn't come in clearly until about an hour after sundown, but after that the reception is pretty good. They also have internet radio if you'd like to listen during the day. www.am740.ca



I actually just tuned in their website and the actual station, the on the air feed is about a second or so ahead of the online stream. This sounds interesting.

The yesterdayusa link is fantastic!! Thanks.. I do listen to 740 AM on my old radios on several of my old radios. I also like to listen to WSM with the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday nites. I tend to listen to my radios more in the winter as there is usually no interference with thunderstorms. This post is a great resource.
Dan

If you want to download shows (for a small fee) you can get a ton of 'em at

www.greatotr.com

For free downloading there are a number of sites. www.otrfan.com and google calfkiller for a couple. Also calfkiller tv has some links to classic tele and movies. I've got a list on my office computer and other laptop as all I download to both my mp3 player and my cell are old time radio shows.

Lots of free MP3's of old radio programs for download at

http://www.radiolovers.com/

Harry
Maryville, Tennessee

770 KAAM in Dallas live streams on the web. Check out their schedule. http://www.kaamradio.com/

Lot's of streaming and mp3 availability of old radio shows. I know I have downloaded some in the past and some have very low quality. Granted the original recordings are poor by todays standards but they are made worse than low bit rates. That phasing sound drives me nuts. Good old am noise is soothing to the ear but not that digital stuff. Any recommendations on good recordings? A mp3 can be made to sound decent. With high speed internet we can up the bit rate to a suitable no destructive level pleasing to the ear.

I've seen a couple of sites that offer the files in differing bitrates, file sizes roughly 2-3 times as large. I suspest the CDs that can be bought likewise are higher quality. Also, I've got a few cassettes that were commerially recorded and they are very decent. Old radio had an upper limit of 10khz at best so an audio cassette with its analog recording probably will sound better than a CD or mp3. Question would be whether the cassette is recorded from a record or tape or from a digital source.