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I worked for Hewlett-Packard for 8 years, (I think), way too long. Mostly 12 hour shifts, 6:00pm to 6:00am. I purchased two Recoton 900mghz Wireless Radio Headsets both with approximately 6 hours of rechargeable batter life.
I could listen to the radio, hands-free for my entire shift and post to the Usenet Newsgroups, or Discussion forums. (Computers were everywhere of course). For probably 5-6 years I never missed an Art Bell show. Love listening to both the sane people and the nuts out there call in.
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He-he! I do a version of that here where I work. I bought an FM transmitter kit and run my computer audio out through it. That way I can "broadcast" internet streams and listen anywhere in the building with a portable headphone radio. I usually play Coast To Coast weekends, because that's when Art is hosting now. But if the weeknight host (George Norry) has an interesting guest on I'll listen to that. If you pay a subscription fee, you can access streams of all the past shows, and that's what I do. If it's a really good show I save it on my computer and then listen with my iPod. I listened to Art Bell nightly in 1998 for the year that I lived in Texas, but now I just can't stay up that late and then get up at 6am for my job.
Scottwax, thanks for the tip. I'll try that on a section next time if I don't use the PC.