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Tucson AM and FM radio stations. What is available?

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Mcmann57

The wife and I are planning to move to Tucson, Arizona next year; and I am wondering how many and what type of radio stations are available in the area.
My main interest is jazz and classical and perhaps some rock thrown in. Can you get any Phoenix stations?
Regarding AM, a few talk radio and weather stations would be nice.

Edits: 03/25/14

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RE: Tucson AM and FM radio stations. What is available? - vinylvamp@msn.com 22:58:36 04/02/14 (0)
Greetings from Tucson!

You'll find a great npr/syndicated jazz station at 89.1 KUAZ, classical at 90.5 KUAT, and the best community radio station in the country at 91.3 KXCI. They have different dj's and shows daily/weekly. The jazz station used to be a local broadcast and KUAT used to broadcast Hearts Of Space Sunday nights at 11:00, but no more. That was the best FM I ever heard...

You are going to love it here!

Cheers,

Michael

Enjoy the music while your party is being reached...
Try this - Markw* 14:00:36 03/31/14 (0)
It might offer some help. Go to "Advanced Searcjh" and type in zip codes
- FM Locator (Open in New Window)
RE: Tucson AM and FM radio stations. What is available? - openmind 16:57:19 03/26/14 (0)
I'm in Tempe but I get downstate often. You are fortunate, they have a full-time classical station with several repeaters plus an NPR station that plays jazz sometimes. On my car radio I can get them about 100 miles toward Phoenix but Tucson has some mountain areas so your mileage may vary. Plus those stations are available online. Welcome!
RE: Tucson AM and FM radio stations. What is available? - Lee of Omaha 18:30:57 03/25/14 (8)
You MIGHT be able to get Phoenix stations with a really good directional antenna. I'm from Phoenix and lived in Flagstaff for awhile while going to school. I had a Radio Shack 12-element FM antenna mashed up against the ceiling of my apartment (college kid) and I had a Pioneer F-28 tuner (amazing sensitivity) and could get the Tucson NPR station in pretty quiet mono and noisy stereo.

So you may be able to get Phoenix from Tucson. I'd get a great antenna and a really sensitive tuner. You'll probably have to tune it away from local transmitters to avoid overload.

Have fun shoveling the sunshine!
- Dare I mention wire rhombics here? - Timbo in Oz 22:12:00 03/25/14 (7)
  ;-)!
  
  ? Ask?
  
  Warmest
  
  Tim Bailey
  
  Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
  - RE: Dare I mention wire rhombics here? - Lee of Omaha 17:42:24 04/07/14 (4)
    Don't circularly polarized signals rotate the other way down there?
    - Nope, the rotation is determined by the transmitting antenna. - Timbo in Oz 17:54:26 04/07/14 (3)
      Helical RH or LH 'thread' or a crossed dipole fed in the two possible ways.
      Most stations simply used mixed polarity these days. AKA 45deg. slant.
      This helps a bit with mobile reception in cars.
      IIRC rhombics when horizontal have that polarity. But I may be wrong.
      
      Warmest
      
      Tim Bailey
      
      Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
      
      Edits: 04/07/14
      - Sorry, weak joke... - Lee of Omaha 07:08:39 04/08/14 (2)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Nope, the rotation is determined by the transmitting antenna. posted by Timbo in Oz on April 07, 2014 at 17:54:26
        
        implicitly referring to the Coriolis effect.
        
        Coriolus doesn't AFAIK have anything to do with EMR. - Timbo in Oz 14:42:14 04/08/14 (1)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Sorry, weak joke... posted by Lee of Omaha on April 08, 2014 at 07:08:39
        
        Small but worth compensating for effect on gunnery, at long range at sea.
        
        I see I've spelt it wrong, too.
        
        Warmest
        
        Tim Bailey
        
        Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
        
        RE: Coriolus doesn't AFAIK have anything to do with EMR. - Lee of Omaha 14:10:31 04/29/14 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Coriolus doesn't AFAIK have anything to do with EMR. posted by Timbo in Oz on April 08, 2014 at 14:42:14
        
        And then there's the Beethoven overture, as well. And the countertop material.
        
        ...even weaker jokes...
  - RE: Dare I mention wire rhombics here? - ice_cream_man 15:18:30 03/30/14 (1)
    Of course you dare, Timbo, we wouldn't have it any other way! Someone has to keep up the good fight.
    Regards from cold and soggy New England.
    Jim
    - Well now, It's soggy here in Canberra in Autumn, end of month 1 - Timbo in Oz 18:14:29 03/30/14 (0)
      We have had unusually wet weather from February onwards.
      
      I have a LOT to do in the garden, gutters and etc. Once it fines up, that is!
      
      Warmest
      
      Tim Bailey
      
      Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
FM Fool will tell you about the FM stations. - Timbo in Oz 15:45:40 03/25/14 (1)
It will also tell you where each one's transmitter/s are, so you will know where to point your antenna/s - for each one.
It won't tell you which ones sound good. That is, which ones use very little dynamic range compression. Nor will it tell you which ones you will like or hate. If any have a listen on line facility you can do previews even though the sound quality will be lower.
Don't live in America and don't know if there's an AM equivalent to FM Fool.
I don't bother with AM except for two stations and that rarely. Both have good sound because they are subject to a national charter, being publicly owned. Their signal extends to about 15Khz so I need the whistle filter for day time.
[I use an old tube simulcast rcvr rebuilt with a MPX unit added and the two AM stages combined, and the power amps off.]
Have a listen
http://www.abc.net.au/radio/player/?station=RN
http://www.abc.net.au/radio/player/?station=local_canberra&src=internetradio

Warmest

Tim Bailey

Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
- FM fool (Open in New Window)
Edits: 03/25/14
- RE: FM Fool - Mcmann57 15:22:44 03/31/14 (0)
  Thanks, Tim. This is an incredibly useful website.

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