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I am able to tune in to at least 41 over-the-air FM radio stations here. A few of them are faint or have static, but most get fairly good reception. If I moved my antenna I'd probably be able to pick up even more stations. So why do radios provide so few station presets? I have a shiny new radio/cd-player - it even has USB and MP3 audio input ports - but it only lets you save 20 FM stations in the presets. Would it be so difficult or expensive for the manufacturer to provide 99 (or more) instead of 20?
I don't like what is played on each and every station, so I wouldn't want to save them all in memory. But there *are* more than 20 stations which might occasionally play music I'd care to listen to.
If they made radios like they used to, with the round tuning dial, the presets wouldn't matter so much, as it would be relatively easy to flip the dial from one frequency to another. But with digital radios where you have to push up and down buttons to change frequencies 10 Mhz at a time, it's very inconvenient to tune in to stations that way. The automatic scanning/tuning tends to skip over more than half the stations, so I don't like using it.
And another thing. Why don't radios nowadays come with a battery port, so that items in memory can be preserved when the unit is unplugged or when the power goes out? This one says that the presets will be lost if the unit is left unplugged for a few days. My good old clock-radio-cassette-player from 1983 (abouts) has a long-life replaceable battery which keeps the clock working when it is unplugged. It still works, and I still use it! I don't have to worry about the power going out in the middle of the night, and having my alarm not come on in the morning because the time-settings got screwed up.
Oh, what am I complaining about. I hardly ever listen to the radio anymore anyway. I chose this one because it was free (a 15 year anniversary gift from my place of employment) and because it has USB and audio input ports, so I can hook my MP3 player up to it.
I've been working there 15 years. Early on, I considered quitting because they weren't giving me enough work to do, and I was bored silly and feeling guilty about passing time by doing things like writing down numbers from one to a thousand, using both hands. This year I've considered quitting because they've been giving me too much work to do.
I don't like what is played on each and every station, so I wouldn't want to save them all in memory. But there *are* more than 20 stations which might occasionally play music I'd care to listen to.
If they made radios like they used to, with the round tuning dial, the presets wouldn't matter so much, as it would be relatively easy to flip the dial from one frequency to another. But with digital radios where you have to push up and down buttons to change frequencies 10 Mhz at a time, it's very inconvenient to tune in to stations that way. The automatic scanning/tuning tends to skip over more than half the stations, so I don't like using it.
And another thing. Why don't radios nowadays come with a battery port, so that items in memory can be preserved when the unit is unplugged or when the power goes out? This one says that the presets will be lost if the unit is left unplugged for a few days. My good old clock-radio-cassette-player from 1983 (abouts) has a long-life replaceable battery which keeps the clock working when it is unplugged. It still works, and I still use it! I don't have to worry about the power going out in the middle of the night, and having my alarm not come on in the morning because the time-settings got screwed up.
Oh, what am I complaining about. I hardly ever listen to the radio anymore anyway. I chose this one because it was free (a 15 year anniversary gift from my place of employment) and because it has USB and audio input ports, so I can hook my MP3 player up to it.
I've been working there 15 years. Early on, I considered quitting because they weren't giving me enough work to do, and I was bored silly and feeling guilty about passing time by doing things like writing down numbers from one to a thousand, using both hands. This year I've considered quitting because they've been giving me too much work to do.