What’s the radio?
Crosley radio model CR3036D – CL
@cris, @shittydwarfYep, that is the model.
My local radio stations suck. They’re all country or religious, and 1 NPR station.
All my homies listen to NPR
That’s the only OTA station worth listening to here.
The cool thing is that most radio stations these days also stream on their websites, so if you haven’t got any good local stations you can stream other small community ones. Radio garden is a cool website where you can stream stations online from around the world.
Dad once did radio DJ for a few years professionally, had to have a broadcast license and everything
I’ve thought about getting on the airwaves myself for the fun of it but have no fuckin clue where to start lol
Hamstudy.org is good to cram the license questions, and you can get a basic 2m/70cm band handheld transciever for less than $100 (well, you could pre Random Tarrif Gameshow Time)
Speaking of which, if anyone is interested, I’m (re-)starting a community radio station for Lemmy users, by Lemmy users. Launching this year:
!radiolemmy@lemm.ee || https://radiolemmy.com/
I’ll need DJs and curators to help me make programming blocks. If you have music you’d like to share or a podcast then you are needed! Check the community often; within the next few days I’ll make a post on how you can help contribute.
Edit: Given the community we’re in, I feel like it’s my duty to mention that unless you so happen to live in my neck of the woods, this will be an internet-only station for the vast majority of listeners. The OTA component will come later next year, and will be extremely low power to avoid expensive licensing fees (the digital broadcast license is expensive enough as-is).
Not as exciting—I know—but I’m still hoping that some of you will still check it out when I launch in Q3 this year.
Woah, that sounds awesome. I’d definitely be interested in helping out with that.
Thanks for your interest! This is actually my second attempt at a radio station for Lemmy.
The first go around did okay but the schedule was fairly empty most days. I did have a couple of dedicated DJs who would put on some amazing live shows, but for most of the day the station was just playing random music and the listener count would plummet as such.
This time I have a game plan. Taking my time to make sure I don’t launch until I have a full schedule filled out.
If you know anybody who wants to build a programming block or do a live show, please send them my way! There will be plenty of timeslots available, from 30 minutes in length up to 6 hours. You can make a prerecorded show, or do it live. Music or talk. Whatever you prefer.
The website for the station is up! Here’s how you can contribute:
https://radiolemmy.com/how-to-contribute-to-radio-lemmy.html
Hmm, the website seems to be down.
It shouldn’t be. Try clearing your DNS cache. The website went up just a couple of days ago so maybe your DNS server hasn’t updated its records yet.
Edit: There’s also a post about it in the community for the station: !radiolemmy@lemm.ee
I’d be interested in helping with some programming. Maybe a short prerecorded show, that would be cool to get involved.
Perfect! Thank you.
I need prerecorded content as well as live DJs; a regular output of content is preferable so I can get you on the schedule, but anything and everything helps, even if it’s a single 30 minute performance.
Check back on the community in a few days for instructions on how you can contribute (look for a pinned post). And thank you again.
Pinned post is up! Instructions for how to contribute to the station are within: !radiolemmy@lemm.ee
Alternatively you can go here to get started: https://radiolemmy.com/how-to-contribute-to-radio-lemmy.html
I’m involved with a radio station in my area and it’s soooooo cool to sit in on shows. All of the stuff you hear is done by live humans. They go in and manually put CDs and curate the playlists and control the levels of everything. Sometimes they talk in between with some context for the song or random musings they have. Sometimes whoever is hosting will dedicate a particular song to somebody they know. It’s so endearing and human. Occasionally they’ll have a prerecorded show but most of them are live.
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Question: Do radio broadcasters have any indication/numbers on how many are listening in while on FM/AM?
Not from broadcasting, but they can pay a ratings company like Nielsen to research certain samples of the population.
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Only in internet radio.
I have a theory that the reason why FM radio stations often hold contests is so that they can gauge how many people are listening. By counting the number of entries and calculating an estimate of what percentage of radio listeners enter their contests, you can get a rough estimate of how many people are tuning in.
Kind of like how Nielsen operates. Send out a survey to a percentage of the American population, and from their answers you can figure out how many people watch a certain show.
In Germany we quite a few really cool alternative radio stations. They all have their local frequencies, shows and so on, but also share a German-wide morning show. It’s mostly recoded by the bigger projects, like in Berlin, but otherwise it would just take too much resources from small volunteer run stations.
Do you have any info on how to listen to these stations? Like frequencies or a website where schedules are posted?
Assuming you speak German: https://www.freie-radios.de/
Or here a audio platform where a lot of their content is posted afterwards, where you can discover stations and shows: https://www.freie-radios.net/ (albeit those are confusingly similar URLs)
Thank you :)
Pretty cool little setup
Thanks. Got mine pretty recently and I’ve been enjoying it a lot. It’s nice when you want background noise but don’t wanna curate a playlist on a streaming platform. I have ADHD so I need some kind of background noise to be able to focus on most things. All I have to do is turn it on, sweet deal.
That’s really cool, I used to listen to radio a bunch back in the day, maybe I’ll start again.
What model is it?
Crosley CR3036D
I’ve got a nice little local radio station I like because they play a wide variety of stuff. Not just the same ol top 10 on repeat. Plus very few ads (unless it’s Membership Drive season)
we lost our local radio station last year as the owner aged out. I’m worried about who will acquire that slice of the spectrum.
there is a college station still in a neighboring town at least.
Hell yeah community radio!
I love the same 3 songs, bad jokes and ads after every song.
Some stations are like that, but there’s a lot of cool ones out there that play a variety of music and are not for profit so there aren’t many ads. The smaller ones are usually better in that regard. Highly recommend checking out Radio Garden. It shows a bunch of stations that also stream from all over the world, cool stuff.
Anything good over the air?
There are still a few shortwave broadcasters. You could build your own shortwave receiver from a kit: https://swling.com/db/radio-kits/
There’s a list of stations here: https://www.savenetradio.org/shortwave-radio-station-frequencies/
You can also get into a amateur radio fairly easily. In the US, lots of radio clubs put on license classes, especially for the entry level technician class license. Most other countries have an amateur radio scheme.
Thank for sharing! This is super neat!
I love radio.
