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In Reply to: RE: A magnificent swan. posted by Vinyl Rules! on February 24, 2008 at 20:54:26
Vinyl Rules! Is one of the stations that you are referring to WNCW? I'm new back to FM and is sounds good to me, much more listenable than the internet feed.
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Yes, WNCW, the Isothermal Community College station at 88.7 broadcasts an extremely good-sounding signal with little compression. They don't offer much in the way of NPR programming, and since you listen to them, they mostly play CD's and they do have some live broadcasts from their studio. Their website is www.wncw.org and they list their programming on their site.Ditto for WDAV, the Davidson College station at 89.9. They are also a great sounding station. During the week they are mostly a classical music station and their source is mostly CD's. They do offer some NPR programming, as they are the station we listen to when we're in North Wilkesboro to listen to "A Prairie Home Companion" and "The Thistle and Shamrock" on Saturday evenings.
And we have a college station here in North Wilkesboro that uses NO COMPRESSION! The station is WSIF at 90.9, but they are a very low power station, around 1,000 watts. They have an Optimod 8100A1, but they don't use it because they LOST the manual for it and no one at the station knows how to operate it, so they don't do ANY signal processing! 90% of their programming is from 3 different Philip's CD players I've seen in the studio and the other 10% is live broadcasts of local bands from their studio. Most of the local bands aren't that good, but we're the home of MerleFest every April (www.MerleFest.org) and during that time period some of the MerleFest artists will play from their studio. The sound is incredible, better than any CD you'll ever hear. Unfortunately, WSIF does not have a web presence so the only info you can find about them at on the www.radio-locater.com site.
When we're in West Jefferson, WETS at 89.5 is in Johnson City TN, and they broadcast from East Tennessee State University and they have some incredible programming during the day, and they do several live broadcasts each week from their studio.
It really appears from this thread and from similar postings over in the FM Tuner Group in Yahoo that those of us out in the "sticks" are more likely to have an opportunity to listen to a good FM station than many in large urban areas.
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Posted by ancient tones (A) on February 26, 2008 at 04:32:03
In Reply to: RE: A magnificent swan. posted by Vinyl Rules! on February 24, 2008 at 20:54:26
Vinyl Rules! Is one of the stations that you are referring to WNCW? I'm new back to FM and is sounds good to me, much more listenable than the internet feed.
Thank you for the good info. I'm in Asheville, so WNCW is probably the only station you listed that I can receive. I do travel over that way on occasion and to Johnson City area. If you like bluegrass music, which I do, this whole area has several interesting stations. Tri-Cities with WETS and an AM station the plays classic country and bluegrass. Also, an AM station, maybe 850, that plays bluegrass only. I listen in to them when I travel I-40 towards Hickory. It's in the Catawba river valley area. Anything other than the usual commercial stuff is fine with me.
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