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I remember listening to KOY in Arizona in the 1960s on a 1950s Philco tube radio. They played classic rock/pop/oldies, but didn't call them oldies , because they were new back then!
Here in Hong Kong, average Chinese-language station, even if the music they choose isn't cruddy Canto-pop garbage, sounds like this:
talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, SONG, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, SONG, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, SONG, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk
...and the talking they do is mostly obnoxious, stupid stuff, delivered in a very "low class" style. There are exceptions, of course (maybe 2 DJs out of the bunch), but so few and far between that it isn't worth trying to find them.
The only two good stations here are a classical station on FM, and an [English-language] oldies/pop music station on AM (switches to simultaneously broadcasting on AM and FM at midnight, until about 6 a.m....). The BEST broadcast in Hong Kong is non-stop oldies/classic rock (zero talking, just song after song) from 4 to 6 a.m. on that FM frequency. The classical FM station is generally quite good, but I'm not always in the mood for classical, only sometimes.
To get those stations clearly, I spent a while researching, choosing and getting a good FM antenna, properly mounted/oriented, and then made a tunable square-loop AM antenna. The AM signal was quite strong already, but the better antenna still further improved the sound quality. I'd like to get a "Signal Sleuth" to further improve the FM sound, too, but the only one I found locally was over-priced, so I'm still looking.
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04-18-2008, 10:34 PM
Hybrid Mode
