I never listen to talk radio. After that embarrassing loss, I was driving into work and was thinking " what was that station... ". I got it right. I tuned into 1010xl. I enjoyed listening to it. I wS working out of WGV and the reception sucked but was able to listen. Then I googled the station and saw 92.5 was the fm station.so through it my day I listened to 92.5. The next day I decided to bring an old cell phone that had an fm radio on it so I can listen throughout work. The reception sucked so bad I had to turn it off ( this was Tuesday and in the mandarin area). Wednesday (today) I tried again with different earbuds since that is my antenna, and it worked fairly well. I decided to buy a personal am/fm radio and also plan on a trip to best buy to make my antenna more powerful.


My question for you guys that know more than I do is this: a pocket am/fm radio should be better than what's on a phone? Yes? Also the pocket radio gives me the ability to listen to am. Would the am reception be better than fm? What are good ways to boost my reception? From limited research I'm looking at a 3.5 mm splitter with my earbuds and a thicker 3.5 mm wire in the other as my antenna. That would work right? If not any better ideas on listening in the 210/WGV/ mandarin area?

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