listening to a streaming radio station

[Marthe48]

Onlineradiobox.com
Unbelievably, this morning the transmission sounds like an old clock radio with an analog dial with another station bleeding in and drowning out what I'm trying to listen to! How can that be? I had to shut it off.
This has never happened before.

Update: the station is back to normal. Glad for that

[SheltieLover]

1. Maybe you've entered the Twilight Zone?

Sorry, couldn't resist. I have no idea how that could happen.

[AllaN01Bear]

20. hey!!! i was just thinking that!!!!!!!

[SheltieLover]

22. Great minds!!!

[marble falls]

2. maybe they were having a throwback night? ...

... Being a native Clevelander, I loved WIXY in the days before I got my first auto with FM. The station itself is now "pop" country, someone put WIXY online and it is PDG.

https://www.wixy1260online.com/

Course I graduated from WIXY to WNCR and when they were sold and went to another format, to WMMS. WMMS is now all news.

Now for the best thing:

https://radio.garden/

You can punch in the station you want, or cursor on one of those dots to listen to radio around the world!

[Marthe48]

3. I listened to WIXY too!

I moved away from the Cleveland area while it was still rock and roll. When I went back to visit, it was country. And WGAR was rock. What a world lol
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[marble falls]

6. WGAR was actually pretty good pre-rock. Remember "Big" Wilson? My mom listened to WKYW ...

... all day when we were young, before she went back to banking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Wilson

[peacebuzzard]

5. I love radio garden.

I have the app on my phone and wish I could set it up with a better sound system. Thanks for reminding me of simple pleasures; I feel like I am a ham radio operator as I tune into different countries.
I really get a kick out of music and other programs from around the world.

[marble falls]

7. I couldn't get a good shortwave radio. This solves my problem. When I had a nice old one ...

... as a kid, I'd listen to Radio Holland, Radio London ... I just loved listening in dark at night.

[peacebuzzard]

11. same. as a kid the world radio fascinated me..

It seemed like such a wonderful and at the same time terrifying world.

[marble falls]

15. BBC used to have stations for different countries. I even listen to Radio Free Europe ...

... didn't understand the talk part too well, but the music was almost always good and usually US.

[peacebuzzard]

17. Music is universal and US contemporary music always

..topped it all.
Has always set the pace and spoke volumes.

[marble falls]

18. Remember these? ...

?si=q8f9_1h3VSfs0mw4

[peacebuzzard]

19. I missed this! I love it!

reminds me of me as a kid. I spent my youth overseas growing up and music from the states on the radio was everything I dreamed about.
RFE was not transmitted in some of the places I lived overseas because of censorships and some of the only news would come from the US armed forces radio and TV. Which was also filtered and edited.
I was also into VOA; that at times was terrifying as it transmitted all the horror in the world too.

[marble falls]

23. I know there were time when the USSR would jam the signals in Russia and other Iron Curtain states ...

[AllaN01Bear]

21. i still have mhy shortwave set (hf, high frequency.)

[peacebuzzard]

4. Marthe48 you must have my radio

Except I don't have the clock on mine. I enjoy owning my analog radio, which I keep in the kitchen, where I spend most of my time.
I can't explain your bad reception, but it sounds like your receptor is off. Did you try fine-tuning it?
on edit: I just reread your post you are not on analog you are online. lol. wow. I better have my first cup of coffee...

[Marthe48]

8. I expect the problems on the radio

I didn't know streaming could or would do it.

Enjoy your coffee!

[House of Roberts]

9. An over the air signal could be mistuned

unless the originator plays it's programming directly online. A rebroadcaster could have their receiver slightly off and not have noticed.

[Marthe48]

12. I don't know how the online site works

If it is original or rebroadcast. I was happy to find the DJ and music online without the religious ad that the local station plays. This is the first time that I got 2 station at the same time.
Over the air is like antenna reception, right? I remember reading that term when there was a post about picking up tv stations without cable.

[House of Roberts]

13. Over the air is antenna reception.

My over the air TV antenna is a piece of coax cable taped to a 'T' shaped cpvc water pipe with the center conductor split to one leg, and the braided shield split to the opposite leg. The effective length is approximately a wavelength at the middle of the UHF frequencies and I pick up local channels from 19 to 54.

[Marthe48]

14. I got rid of cable several years ago

I looked into getting an antenna, at the time. My memory is fuzzy, but it turned out that there was some kind of regulation that you had to show that you could get the transmission 50% of the time or less, or you couldn't use an antenna. Either the antenna wasn't zoned or the tv station didn't want you to grab their signal. I can't remember the details. I was going to get a window antenna, which sounds like what you described, at least a T shape, so that reminded me of my effort. The most powerful local station used to get awards for public service, but sinclair owns it now and they have no idea what public service means. If they can block OA signal on an antenna unless you pay them, they will.

[House of Roberts]

16. Over the air TV is advertiser supported.

They need you to watch their programming to make money. I doubt it's in their best interest to block local reception.
My antenna is indoors on top of the cabinet that holds my TV. I tried an outside antenna, but couldn't get any more channels than I could with the indoor one. For all I know about antennas, I knew very little about digital TV reception, as the change happened while I was still on Comcast. What I didn't know was to determine whether the antenna change was better, I had to rescan the channels each time. Since I found that out I haven't bothered to try the outside antenna again.
Most of the commercially available indoor antennas look like a computer tablet with a cable attached to the back of the set. I tried one of them, but it wasn't any better than my homemade one, so I returned it. If you get an indoor antenna, mount it as high as feasible, and turn the flat side of it toward the station's broadcasting tower, for best signal. Here, all the towers are on the tallest mountain, so one direction is adequate.

[peacebuzzard]

10. as the world falls apart, there is always coffee to cheer me up

and get my motor going