set up a radio :)

Submitted by WRETCHEDSORCERESS in just_post (edited )

having a good time with it! the moment i got the antennae all connected to my receiver and I heard the music crackle to life through the static it felt a bit magical

i get some nice local stations. there's multiple college radio stations which is great since they play actually interesting music. always figured radio wouldn't be of interest to me since I listen to more obscure music mostly, but those stations have been introducing me to lots of new stuff. thank you for the great set, person with a really good dj name I can't say because it would doxx me to within FM radio distance

it's also nice to know other people out there are listening to the same thing. just a nice feeling of connection while going about doing household tasks.

the jazz station is good too (especially during the off-hours avant garde sets) and the classical station is always good background noise

one of the college stations has been plugging some local mutual aid stuff which is cool. i still think they're cowards for only playing a 3.5 minute gy!be song. give me all of motherfucker=redeemer on live radio.

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cowloom wrote

Man I'm envious, our local jazz station turned into a variety station a few years ago, and it's not as good. Our local classical station is almost always playing NPR when I tune in. Everything else is crappy commercial butt rock, crappy commercial pop, or christofash talk radio. I have to use internet radio if I want to hear good music, and even then, most of those stations play ads.

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WRETCHEDSORCERESS OP wrote

That sucks! Genuinely evil. Can't believe they'd do that to the jazz station

One of the first stations I randomly hit was some christofash talk show. The connection was really bad. They were doing a hymn but it was veiled in static. Hell of an audio experience. Sounded like a broadcast at the end of the world. And then they just started talking. Sad!

Honestly most of the stations here are still christian music or talk radio. Its amazing how many one area can sustain.

Where but for the grace of college students broadcasting weird music go I. They're playing hurdy gurdy instrumental music rn.

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cowloom wrote

I know! I miss being able to press a button and instantly hear jazz. Now I have to press a button while I have a Wi-Fi connection to get instant jazz, and that's just a smooth jazz internet radio station. I miss my jazz fusion.

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__0 wrote

When i was involved with community radio whenever i was really hung over i would play whole whole godspeed song because its epic and it would give me enough time to take a nap in the booth haha. My shows were pretty insane I remember once i just grabbed random people off the street and got them to play songs on the aux, i would egg them on to play the most out there stuff, ended up doing a line off the broadcast console with one dude, brought a bunch of synthesizers into the studio and played weird sound effects over the songs that the strangers chose was so fun haha, we got a lot of confused calls into the station :) kept going all night cause there was a no show for a few people who were scheduled on their last night of programming. Community radio is great and deserves to be accessible! Give all the freaks a radio show! Its a great platform and all the corporatization of radio has absolutely sucked the soul out of something that has the potential to be one pf the most livid forms of posting tbh!

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