I Love (Broadcast) Radio

(agk) Links – 2021 February

I love community radio stations with great music and shows I wouldn’t hear anywhere else. Yep I love UHF/VHF and HF amateur radio, weather band, and shortwave, but today's links are about tuning into the sonic homes of great people who are enthusiastic about local music and local news.

When you’re in town, you can tune into these stations on your FM dial. When you’re distant, you can listen to their icecast streams with your music player of choice (I use VLC on my phone and mpg123 on my laptop). The best music shows are usually on Friday and Saturday nights.

Broadcast-first community radio

In Memphis, TN, tune in WEVL at 89.9 on your FM dial for sweet Stax soul and a good variety of rock, blues, and roots music. Catch their stream at wevl.streamguys1.com/live in your browser or music player.
In many Eastern KY counties (Powell, Estill, Lee, Wolfe, Clark, Menifee, Montgomery, and Madison), listen to WSKV on 104.9 FM for bluegrass, roots, and hard-edged local singer-songwriter country. Tyler Childers is the area's most famous local musician. WSKV's Steam Engine Session Room is in the back of a bar/restaurant across the street from the Irvine studio. You can’t hear those recordings anywhere else. The stream's direct link is ice3.securenetsystems.net/WSKV.
In New Orleans, LA, WWOZ is the Guardian of the Groove on 90.7 FM. After Hurricane Katrina, their phenomenally dedicated community all over the world donated from personal collections to restore the station's library of rare and one-of-a-kind records. ‘OZ streams to wwoz-sc.streamguys1.com/wwoz-hi.mp3.
Listen to WNOV at 860 on the AM dial in Milwaukee, WI, the "Wisconsin Negroes Own Voice" since 1967. Despite major changes in the last decade, it continues to be a community-oriented broadcaster of black talk radio and urban contemporary music well beyond the top 40. Catch the stream at crystalout.surfernetwork.com:8001/WNOV-AM_MP3

Stations associated with online communities

I’m an enthusiastic member of sdf, the public-access UNIX server and community that hosts this website. I love listening to sdf’s anonradio shows: News To You, Dubious Goals Committee, Something Blue, Bronzie Beat’s shows, and FroggyMe’s Fantastic Fantasy. You can stream during Open Mic and call into OpenVOIP or the SDFARC net. Between shows you'll hear a repetitive mix. Tune in at anonradio.net:8000/anonradio. Run ‘com’ in an sdf UNIX shell and ‘g anonradio’ to join the chat party during shows.
Sdf’s sister radio station is tilderadio, at radio.tildeverse.org/radio/8000/radio.mp3. I especially like snowdusk’s show. The chat party during shows is at at #tilderadio on ircs://irc.tilde.chat:6697 (if you don't have an irc client, try kiwi in your browser).
See today's and tomorrow's anonradio and tilderadio schedules on gemlog's website. Times are in UTC; adjust them for your time zone.

Listening tips from sdf’s anonradio

“Open Network Stream” with VLC Player. Point to the streaming link you want to hear. VLC Player is free for Windows, OSX, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Android, and iOS.

Windows Media Player users, Ctrl+U to “Open URL” and enter the streaming link. “Open URL” is under the classic File menu in WMP.

If you prefer mpg123, put the helpful script below in your $PATH. Call it 'radio' and make it executable.

#!/bin/bash
case "$1" in
        -a) mpg123 -b 768 http://anonradio.net:8000/anonradio ;;
        -e) mpg123 -b 768 http://wevl.streamguys1.com/live ;;
        -n) mpg123 -b 768 http://crystalout.surfernetwork.com:8001/WNOV-AM_MP3 ;;
        -o) mpg123 -b 768 http://wwoz-sc.streamguys1.com/wwoz-hi.mp3 ;;
        -t) mpg123 -b 768 http://radio.tildeverse.org/radio/8000/radio.mp3 ;;
         *) echo "syntax : 'radio -a' plays anonradio, -e WEVL, -n WNOV, -o WWOZ, -t tilderadio"  ;;
esac
# Original script posted on sdf's bboard in 2021 by Publius. 
# agk added 3 streams and removed one.

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