Tuners in car stereos, however, are much much better. You might want to look at a power invertor for a car deck (possibly the one you took out to install the empeg). You'll need an antenna too, but that shouldn't be too much money.

Hmm. Interesting idea. I do still have my Mustang's factory radio hanging around. Isn't the AM antenna for a car different from the antenna that sticks up in the air outside the car? I was always under the impression AM antennas were generally non-directional so they were stashed somewhere inside the components.

A lot of AM stations do streaming from their sites now as well. If the shows you like are syndicated, you may find other stations that web cast if your local one does not.

Yeah, this station is just the local Philly sports station and they don't do streaming.

How is streamripper?

Pretty nice. Only does MP3 streams, but does them pretty well. I just use it in command-line mode via cron jobs (UNIX scheduling daemon) to record the shows I like each day.