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Here's a list of bands:

Echo & The Bunnymen...The Church...The Fall...Devo...Elvis Costello...U2...R.E.M....The Jam...The Cure...The B-52's...The Clash...XTC...Depeche Mode...Wire...New Order...Violent Femmes...Talking Heads...Joy Division...Bauhaus...Joe Jackson...Nine Inch Nails...The Replacements...The Psychedelic Furs...David Bowie...Ramones...Squeeze...The Comsat Angels...Pixies...The Damned...The Wonder Stuff...Big Audio Dynamite...The Sound...The Smiths...Ultravox...Gang of Four...Siouxsie and the Banshees...Pop Will Eat Itself...Dramarama...The The...The Stone Roses...The dB's...Ministry...Madness...Love and Rockets...They Might Be Giants...Pete Shelley...Oingo Boingo...The Stranglers...Buzzcocks...Sparks...The Smithereens...The Bongos...The Screaming Blue Messiahs...The Police...APB...The Chameleons...Sonic Youth...Robyn Hitchcock...Public Image Ltd....Mission of Burma...Simple Minds...The Specials...Tears for Fears...Nick Lowe...Front 242...The Teardrop Explodes...Thomas Dolby...Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark...Modern English...Ned's Atomic Dustbin...The Vapors...Bow Wow Wow...The Waterboys...ABC...The Boomtown Rats...Soft Cell...Hunters & Collectors...B-Movie...Blondie...The Human League...Yazoo...Gene Loves Jezebel...Killing Joke...The Fixx...Lloyd Cole...Marshall Crenshaw...The Farm...Peter Murphy...The Plimsouls...X...Concrete Blonde...Translator...Haircut 100...Sinéad O'Connor...The Alarm...Captain Sensible...The Motors...The Bluebells...Hoodoo Gurus...Stan Ridgway

...all of which you'd have heard on Altrok 90.5 HD2 if you listened last week. You'd have heard them all in between tracks from new artists that don't sound very out-of-place among that crowd at all.

So if you haven't given it a shot, please do, at http://wbjb.org/altrok and/or at http://altrokradio.com (and if you have given it a shot, give it another one!)



-Sean
<a href="http://www.altrok.com">Altrok 90.5 HD2</a>
On your HD Radio, it's Modern Rock at The Jersey Shore!

Hey Sean,I am interested in getting a HD Radio for my car and also one for my home..I did some research and it seems like the reviews are all over the place..Can you maybe recommend, if you know of any good products out there.Just to narrow my search.Appreciate it. I am from the lower Monmouth county area.

[quote][i]Originally posted by wormster[/i]
<br>Hey Sean,I am interested in getting a HD Radio for my car and also one for my home..I did some research and it seems like the reviews are all over the place..Can you maybe recommend, if you know of any good products out there.Just to narrow my search.Appreciate it. I am from the lower Monmouth county area.
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As in "Wall" or therabouts? Chances are you'll get my station spottily, if at all - our station's in Middletown (the Lincroft section) and I find I get the station reliably down to about exit 100 on the Parkway. We're hopefully getting our power raised "real soon now", to the point where if 90.5 FM's listenable (as opposed to "received perfectly"), 90.5 HD2 will be as well, but as I said, it's coming "real soon now".

In the meantime, you'll be able to get Shore Alternative at 94.3 HD2. IMO, they lean a lot more heavily on the 90's, but they throw in the occasional ringer (I heard "Circus Of Death" by The Human League once) so they're an option.

Other HD signals are more of a curiosity - though the same power raise we're getting applies to the NYC stations as well, and you might find yourself getting 102.7 HD2, "last.fm/Discover" fairly reliably. Jerry Rubino, a fellow ex-FM106.3-er, is there, and he's been pulling good new music.

As for what to buy, that depends on whether you want something portable or not.

Portable is the cheapest, with Best Buy's "Insignia" portable now at Overstock.com for $34 or so. <a href="http://www.overstock.com/Electronics/Insignia-NS-HD01-HD-Radio-Portable-Player-Refurbished/4599082/product.html?cid=143848&fp=F">Here's your link for that.</a>

For a more system-component-style one that you can attach an honest-to-goodness antenna to (unlike the Insignia that uses the headphones as its antenna) the Sony component is on sale at Buy.com - <a href="http://www.buy.com/prod/sony-hd-radio-xdr-f1hd-radio-tuner-20-presets/q/listingid/28441310/loc/111/208455895.html">here's that link.</a> This doesn't have its own speakers - you hook it to the Aux input on your stereo.

And for one that stands alone, try this <a href="http://www.walmart.com/ip/Teac-HD-1-HD-Clock-Radio-with-iPod-iPhone-Docking-Black/13339097?wmlspartner=GPA&sourceid=44444444440301197986">Teac for $99 at Walmart,</a> complete with an iPod dock...

I went with the portable (Insignia from Best Buy). I hook it to the aux input in my car, and drape the aux wire over the rear-view mirror. Works pretty nicely. If you use an FM retransmitter to get sound from any portable to your car radio, make sure you use a long wire so that you get a similar antenna effect.

-Sean
<a href="http://www.altrok.com">Altrok 90.5 HD2</a>
On your HD Radio, it's Modern Rock at The Jersey Shore!

Yep,around Brick..That information was very helpful, Like I said , There are so many different views on this subject. Its great to get some hometown prospective on it.So cool, cant wait for the power level to be raised keep us updated...

You've become my number 1 choice when listening at the computer and now away from the computer. I had my daughter download your app to her I-touch. Keep up the great mixes.

hey Sean,just received my internet/hd radio cant wait to finally listen to some good music.. boy i have been missing my music for a long time..

[quote][i]Originally posted by wormster[/i]
<br>hey Sean,just received my internet/hd radio cant wait to finally listen to some good music.. boy i have been missing my music for a long time..
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We just made a significant tweak to the MP3 codec we were using - which might just mean the automation software won't lock up. Maybe I'll go live this weekend...

-Sean
<a href="http://www.altrok.com">Altrok 90.5 HD2</a>
On your HD Radio, it's Modern Rock at The Jersey Shore!