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Get a Sirius/XM adapter for your car radio, then tune to Fox Talk ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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Yea, you can drive angry for 35 hours.

Your friends at the other end, will enjoy your company after that.

don

Adapter? I think I'd have to buy a new radio. I'd be happy with an Aux-In for an MP3 player.

He said "Fox Talk", not "America Leftist Weenie" or "Scare America".

I haven't installed it yet, but my son gave me a Sirius to Panasonic tuner adapter _last_ Christmas ;-)

I drive the truck so rarely... 29,000 miles in 10 years, that the Sirius subscription expense makes no sense. ...Jim Thompson

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Some radios have a slot to plug such things in. Is this for one of these radios or does it feed into the antenna directly. The RF modulators that go over the air don't work very well. Some cities have every station at both ends of the FM dial taken.

My XM radio is quite portable but the cables to connect it get to be a mess. We only put it in the car on trips.

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Get XM and listen to America Left and Doctor Radio. There is always Science Friday, basically Talk of the Nation on Friday. XM has 3 NPR stations. Can't get enough NPR you know....

I find "This American Life" and "Car Talk" good stuff for driving. I also flip between POTUS, E Street Radio, and the Grateful Dead channel. Throw in Jam On, Deep Tracks, and "the Groove".....

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This isn't a modulator, it plugs into the Panasonic, and the Panasonic menu controls the Sirius station selections

In the house I use a ROKU Soundbridge and get AM and Fox, etc., straight off the web... a major improvement here in the "notch" where I have trouble even receiving AM radio over-the-air :-( ...Jim Thompson

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Does the ROKU work well for you after having it a few months now?

In the good old days antenna head amps and distribution amps went all the way down to 500kHz, in Europe some of them to 150kHz because they have the longwave band. Now they won't even cover shortwave anymore, only VHF low band and up. So you need to run a 2nd cable :-(

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Usually a mix of good and bad - I usually grab most then jump over ones that turn out to be of no interest.

Get some audio books.

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins is excellent, as is Last Man on the Moon by Gene Cernan, and Bill Clinton's Autobiography is great to listen to (love him or hate him). The Feynman lectures are worth a listen too. In all cases, the actual authors speak them which is the best.

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Thank you, nik

So this is an option intended for the particular radio. Won't work for my truck.

You do sound like Joerg, now. Hows the DTV reception. ;-)

I looked at the ROKU when you bought yours. It's not portable enough to replace my XM. We have lousy radio here so maybe it would work, once I get my shop built.

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Wonderfully! Besides Fox and KFYI, I get the BBC and 17 different Rock 'n' Roll stations ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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Yep. They make such "front-ends" for many modern multi-function automotive radios.

I have cable (Cox). So no over-the-air TV issues.

...Jim Thompson

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Seconded.

Also

Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National network for "The Science Show", "Health Report", "Future Tense", "All in the Mind", "Philosopher's Zone" and "Tech Stream" (which might be on the Radio Australia's pages). (They've stared about 5-6 weeks of summer reruns, but the web sites usually have at least the past month for audio, and maybe longer depending on the program).

the BBC

(?) or for "Science In Action", "Discovery", "One Planet", "Digital Planet", and their Documentary Archive. Also "Health Check". Unfortunatly, last I checked, they don't keep the programs up for very long except for the archive.

might still have something. They quit their "Resarch File" science show in favor of a more general "Earthbeat". (They're not broadcasting in english directly on shortwave anymore, only on World Radio Network (and my local NPR FM band rebroadcaster doesn't air their hour in their schedule) and off their website, and I've not kept up.)

Also try

World Radio Network. The site is a graphics heavy pain in the ass, so I've not got to a broadband terminal and done any real digging. They claim to have a program archive for many international broadcasters.

Try and see if the various magazines have audio blogs. Like Scientific American or Science News, etc. Anybody dug anything good there?

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Thanks, Mark