Thank you very much for sharing this station (also per e-mail). I have listened to the station this weekend for some hours. It's a very good station to listen to. Good music (a little bit of a classic rock format) and a good sound. They also broadcast on FM I see. Have saved it for my i-net stations collection. nice one Alec! :-)
Yes someone mentioned*/ this cute little station on the Twente-remote-receiver chat-board and we all tuned into their morning show which was very funy - they couldn't believe to have suddenly listeners from Brazil, the UK, Holland, Sweden and Bavaria as we all mailed in with requests and greetings - and then I invited them to join our chat on the Twente-board which ended up that we all had great fun together. They said that it was one of their most fun breakfast shows they ever made. - I think we made this little station really happy or at least feeling really internationaly important .... http://www.i1430.com/contact.html
check Ionia on google-maps and -view - it must be a really nice historic little American town somewhere in the middle of nowhere in Michigan
*/ when talking about AM-stereo - They said that AM stereo works fine for them and that AM-stereo sounds fabulous even when listening only mono - they use 4.7 KWs
obviously there are - they put some LINKs on the Twente-forum where you can order them - but I didn't save these LINKs Seems that in Ionia/Mi AM-stereo listening is popular
Quote: alec wrote in post #7http://users.hfx.eastlink.ca/~amstereo/amstereo.htm
also Radio-shack in the US sells them
Yes Radio Shack sells AM stereo radios. I was very surprised to see them for sale in the large Boston store a few years ago. They use a much wider bandwidth than here and AM is used a lot.
Quote: alec wrote in post #7http://users.hfx.eastlink.ca/~amstereo/amstereo.htm
also Radio-shack in the US sells them
Yes Radio Shack sells AM stereo radios. I was very surprised to see them for sale in the large Boston store a few years ago. They use a much wider bandwidth than here and AM is used a lot.
We enjoy what we do. Our staff comes to us because they like what we do! And, we're proud to share WION. I'm glad you found our blog, I have a few on the website, I'm most known for being outspoken on keeping AM alive as-is, and not pushing for digital, as in this blog: http://carlyletech.blogspot.com/2013/02/...io-is-stil.html
Again, my thanks for reading, and do keep in touch with us! We're glad to chat any morning the gang is on the chat boards!
Was having a listen once again to WION1430 yesterday. They really are a credit to their passion and engineeing skills. The webstream is derived, off-air from thier AM stereo transmission. This is how AM should sound!
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Yes, I have looked at that unit Alec, and it looks good!
But given the only AM stereo signal I stand a chance of receiving here is France Bleu at night, it's hardly a worthwhile option, unless we get a few more broadcasters take the same trouble over their AM transmssions as WION clearly do. OK, we have regulatory issues for broadcasters to overcome as well as the incapability of many modern AM receivers to deliver good quality audio.
One thing I have considered is modifying one of my recievers, with a wider bandwidth IF filter. That should at least give the radio half a chance of delivering the audio quality that the transmitter is putting out. Oh well, maybe when I have some spare time.
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Very nice to hear FTLOM get a mention on WION-1430 today.
I had emailed the owner - Jim Carlisle, to compliment his team on their station and how good their AM Stereo derived stream was sounding. Got a nice reply from Jim yesterday and to my surprise my comments got quite a good bit of discussion on their breakfast show today. I'd also mentioned that I'd discovered their station following a post on this forum and they gave that a mention too!
All credit to Alec for hilighting this station in the first place.
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This forum got a good plug across Ionia County Mi this morning, during a live link-up. I had the honour of being the first ever guest caller to link in via Skype, on Jim Carlyle's Breakfast show. We had quite a good chat and I let his listeners know where I first heard of WION 1430.
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The thanks should go to Jim for allowing me to plug FtLoM, my show and Big L on his station. Sadly the link-up was all spur of the moment and I didn't get a recording.
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- I think we made this little station really happy or at least feeling really internationaly important ....
- what a nice article on their page !! - thats how radio should be like 
