Radio on the go
Everyone on a road trip has had it happen – you’re driving along, listening to your favorite song on a great station and then WHAM. You cross some invisible line and the signal starts fading, leaving you with crackling white noise interspersed in the music, until finally it dies out altogether. Then you get to sit there, scrolling through stations, trying to find one that fits your musical tastes.
Satellite radio helps, and of course, nothing beats your own mixed CD to play on the car stereo, but if you want to use your basic radio to listen to a plain old radio station, perhaps hearing the news or traffic reports, you can use Radio Locator to find stations. While the site is technically set up with the purpose of listening to streaming radio over the internet (which is nice because then you can forego location and listen to radio from Brazil if you feel like it), you can also use it to find stations that will play your favorite kind of music in various cities you plan to drive through.
Since it does allow for locating streaming radio, you can also use it in a hotel room if you have your laptop plugged in; across the country but miss your hometown’s morning talk show? Log in and listen live.
What the heck did we all do before the internet?!
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It is nice to discover that a website that is known mostly to radio professionals getting used by listeners. The coverage maps allow for a person traveling to link stations together over an entire trip. Good article.