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I too mourn the loss of musical variety on AM. It used to be all you needed was an AM radio and there was something on for every area of listener interest. Stations did not change formats very often then. Now it is like every year something changes. Once you get attached to a station, it changes format to something unacceptable. There is too much business in the radio business. The love of money has replaced the love of the medium.

I don't like FM very much although the sound quality is good. The music stations have such narrow playlists that it is not long before you've heard them all a hundred times. I can't take the Gen-Ex music, rap or alternative that is on most of the stations. On FM I mostly like NPR when they're not begging for money.

Now I mostly listen to AM talk radio or shortwave. To me a portable radio without shortwave is almost useless.

I did recently discover an AM station that plays great 60s and 70s oldies, WGOP from Maryland. It is at 540 on the dial or simply Fifty-Four as I like to call it. It sounds great coming through my 1937 Philco 37-610 tombstone which also receives excellent shortwave.