So, you are wondering if you can get Radio Mutiny? We have been heard: As far in the northwest as Lower Merion and the West River Drive just before Germantown; On Delaware Avenue to the east, up near the Torresdale el in the northeast; Halfway across the Betsy Ross bridge; In Springfield and Yeadon to the west; On the highway outside the airport in the south; One particularly ambitous listener picked us up with a directional antenna in Oak Lynn, New Jersey.

Unlike larger stations, our radio reception is "line of sight." We broadcast with a mere 20 watts, while they use tens of thousands of watts. One difference is that we broadcast in mono, while they generally broadcast in stereo. Broadcasting in stereo requires twice as much power. Other stations rely on their signal bouncing off of stuff (brick walls, etc.) and into your house. Our signal has one shot- if your antenna "sees" our antenna, you will probably hear us fine- if it does not, it is just a question of luck.

Here are a few suggestions:

1) Car radios do better-even crappy car stereos are often better at recieving weak signals than home equiptment.

2) Our antenna is vertical. It will probably help if yours is too. This gives the electromagnetic waves that we are pumping out more of an opportunity to induce a voltage in your antenna, which will be decoded by your radio and amplified for your listening pleasure.

3) If your stereo has no antenna, make one. from the hardware store, get 10 feet of 12 or 14 guage (multiple strand) copper wire with vinyl coating. Strip one inch off the end of this with a utility knife, removing the coating, and connect this to the FM antenna connection on your radio. Extend the wire up your wall. play around with the placement of the wire and your reception. Be aggressive and move it around. Try both vertical and horizontal angles.

4) You may notice that your reception depends upon where you are standing in the room with the radio. This is because your body can interfere with radio waves. As with all kinds of waves, when radio waves meet an obstruction, they are either absorbed by the barrier, reflected off of the barrier, or manage to pass through it. In actuality, almost always some of each occurs. Your body is made mostly of water- water is a pretty good absorber of radio waves. If you are standing in the way of our signal, you will probably interfere a little bit. If the path to your antenna is clear for WPPRs waves, and you are standing in the way between another stations waves and the antenna, Radio Mutiny will probably sound better. Holding the antenna might affect it too. If you have better things to do besides standing around, holding your antenna in order to recieve our pearls of wisdom, you might try a big pot of water instead. Experiment with its placement to shield your antenna from the evil, giant waves of the other stations and expose the antenna to the nice, perky little waves from Radio Mutiny.

5) For the hardcore radio addict- An antenna on your roof will give you a much better shot for recieving our signal. A directional antenna will make reception very likely, if you are within our range and there are no giant buildings directly between you and West Philly.

6) If you do not catch us try a few times. Occasionally, we are shut down during our broadcast time because a dj was unable to make their shift, we are having technical problems, etc. You may have just caught us at a bad time.

If this all seems a little involved to you- you are right. But if you catch us, I guarantee that you will be listening to programming like you have never heard on the radio before. You will love us, you will hate us, you will find us exciting and boring, sometimes phenomenally skillful and other times amateurish- but we are never bland and robotic, like most of the radio stations in town.