> it’s the only station that will go on mile after mile and I can pick it up again.
I can vouch for that -- I just went on a road trip to visit all the state parks in Utah, and believe me, once you get out of Salt Lake, your choices are NPR, country music, or static. I listened to a lot of NPR.
I distinctly remember being on the long drive leaving my grandparents in Texas to go back north when Bob Hope died.
For very large chunks of that drive there was nothing we could pick up at all except for NPR.
And because it had just happened at the top and bottom and half of every hour they were talking about it and playing a little clips and the shows that were on may have been about him.
Nothing but hearing the same small amount of programming about his death for hours and hours and hours.
I normally love NPR but obviously it became too much. However I do get why truckers like satellite radio. To be able to listen to a station without it fading out, or to be able to CHOOSE another station no matter where you are…
Regarding satellite radio, it's not quite "no matter where". My car has Sirius XM and I like it, but when I'm driving through the forests of the Santa Cruz mountains, it cuts out so frequently that I just turn it off. But as long as the view to the sky is clear, it works great.
I can vouch for that -- I just went on a road trip to visit all the state parks in Utah, and believe me, once you get out of Salt Lake, your choices are NPR, country music, or static. I listened to a lot of NPR.