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photo: Iargo Springs on
River Road near Lumberman's Monument in Iosco County along the great AuSable
River
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Pick up the
Sunrise Artists
Guide for Art Lovers at many businesses along the route along with brochures
for events in cities happening over the summer into fall along this
wonderful, beautiful and historic route!
This summer, hike, swim,
bike, boat, horseback ride the great sunrise side of Michigan!
Participating businesses will be staying open later and offering specials
all along the sunrise side for local and out of state visitors! Tour
US 23, Michigan's former Indian trail along Lake Huron!
-Thanks to your ad in the newspaper, I’m now aware of your talk
station. I’ve listened to Rush, The I-man, & all the rest in your line
up, for many, many years. Thank you so much for clear reception, with
the most valued hosts in the world. - Sincerely, Nancy B.
-I would like to take the opportunity to let you know that our family
enjoys your programming format. This is especially true of the
conservative talk radio programs and the old time radio shows. Keep up
the good work. - Sincerely, Dennis R. _______
Radio’s Reach Remains Strong—and Leading.
Even as competition keeps growing among an evolving slew of devices, AM/FM
radio reaches over 90% of all Americans, in all age brackets every week,
with an envious accumulation of 222,921,000 listeners. No other
medium’s reach has arms as long as that, according to the new Nielsen Total
Audience Report. - source: "Inside Radio"
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Triton Digital™,
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data that internet radio listening is up!
We've noticed, too, on our media encoder server that you're listening to
online more than ever! Thanks for your ear!
Click on the area photos
below for more details
about each area!
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News!
Smart-phone users take WIOS with you!
Download the
TuneIn Radio App (the
industry's most popular online streaming app!) and listen anywhere there's a network connection!
Note: When using TuneIn Radio in the Car
Mode, ask the Voice Search to "Listen to Adult Standards" in order to find
WIOS. There are other references to "WIOS" in the app that don't connect
to our web stream,
and asking for "The Bay's Best" will bring up some other funky music
station. So ask for "adult Standards" of the app and it will take you directly to
WIOS 1480 AM!
The Tune-In Radio app is also
available on most Smart HD & UHD 4K TV's. So if your TV is connected
to the internet, you can get WIOS right on your TV set, too!
Also "Net Radio" is
a function of most wi-fi radios built into home theater systems like
Yamaha's RX-V6A, You can listen if your home theater amplifier is connected
via your home's wi-fi. WIOS can be found listed under the "local
stations" menu. Look for Net Radio on most hi-fi systems with wi-fi
available today. The WIOS stream will connect via mp3 on the Yamaha
RX-V6A.
Also:
Wi-Fi Radio
users
program your internet radio for WIOS!
Just in case the Reciva.com database
doesn't populate your Wi-Fi radio set you can
manually enter:
http://ice3.securenetsystems.net/WIOSM
(This is a universal mp3 stream)
into the "Tune In URL" setup of
the receiver through your Wi-Fi radio's computer software and then listen to WIOS anywhere
there is a wired or wireless internet connection!*
*Most Wi-Fi radio sets
are portable AND behave like tabletop units as well. They work wherever
there is a public, wireless Wi-Fi connection or can be connected with an
Ethernet cable into a router, switch or hub. You'll receive a static-free,
buzz-free audio signal in total high fidelity on a Wi-Fi radio set, just
like you do on your PC! (A high-speed internet connection is needed to
minimize buffering. A 1Mbps minimum download connection is recommended.
1000 kbps download speed is
probably the absolute slowest connection to listen to most online radio
stations.
Alternatively, the Reciva database has been updated with WIOS, you can populate your Wi-Fi
radio with this address (station number) to include WIOS in your radio
stations list: 50737
For PC and Smart Phone listening we now recommend using
our Listen Live link at the top of the page or the TuneIn Radio app from the iTunes store or Android
Google Play Store. _______
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Opera is built on the Google Chrome API, this problem does not occur
in Google Chrome.
1. East Tawas City Clock & State Dock (Harbor Park)
3. Lumberman's Monument (AuSable River Highbanks)
5. Tawas Point Lighthouse (Tawas Point State Park)
6. Iargo Springs on River Rd. (AuSable R. Highbanks)
1. East Tawas Clock and State Dock. The public State Dock Marina
was refurbished in 2019 by the state of Michigan and features modern hi-amp
electrical hookups and safety slips which accommodate a wider variety of
watercraft than the old dock did. See a nice picture of the new marina
here at
easttawas.com, you can see a complete calendar of events at the same
site.
2. The AuSable River overlook can be seen from Lumberman's monument that
sits on top of the AuSable River escarpment in Iosco county and features a
vista that allows you to see for miles. This sand and clay escarpment
is 200 feet above the river in many spots along the highbanks. On a
clear day, you might be able to make out the little town of Glennie to the
north, nearly 15 miles away! Other areas along the highbanks
like Iargo Springs, Canoer's Monument and Old Orchard Park allow you to see
more of the river over a long distance and at river level near the Foote dam
at Oscoda. Dams along the AuSable from Grayling to Oscoda are:
Mio, Alcona, Loud, Five Channels (on M-65), Cooke and Foote. These
dams were built after World War II to control flooding on the river while
redirecting the mouth of the river in a more controlled fashion to empty
into one specific spot on Lake Huron. The dams all are part of a large
hydroelectric power scheme that provides power to western US towns like Las
Vegas, NV.
3. Lumberman's Monument is a tribute to the lumber giants that
worked this land over a century ago. The bronze statue portrays
a lumber company surveyor and a couple of sawyers accompanying him in his
survey of the voluminous virgin pine and deciduous forest that once lorded
over miles of this region. A visitor's center, museum & gift shop anchor
this hiking and nature center near the 200 foot-high rolling sand dunes
along the AuSable River highbanks where the lumbermen rolled off the sawn
logs into the river all those decades ago. Play at the dunes or choose
to kayak / canoe down the AuSable yourself. It's one of the nation's
most gentile rivers to canoe and plays host to the world's largest canoe
marathon the last weekend in July as competitors from all around the world
canoe from Grayling to the finish line in Oscoda over the course of 24
hours!
4. Today, an unassuming, shallow, natural creek named Silver Creek still
flows in the area that once was home to the Tawas Winter Carnival in the
1950's and early 60's before the Forest Service took over the land to
preserve for all to enjoy today. In the above photo you can see
abutments for the original Monument Road bridge that crossed the creek about
a quarter mile west of the current bridge. To the east of Monument
Road lies the Corsair Ski Trails. The land today still is used for
cross country skiing. The forest service grooms the trails every
winter for visitors to enjoy. Silver Creek's waters flow from Indian
Lake in the Sand Lake/National City watershed ultimately to empty into the
Tawas Lake watershed and into Lake Huron.
5. Tawas Point Lighthouse, originally built by the USGS Maritime Services
division in the 1800's is still one of the few original lighthouses in
existence in the USA that hasn't been moved from it's original spot, nor
rebuilt. No longer fully serving as a beacon to Lake Huron's
travelers, it occasionally sports a modern, low-intensity light with the
original Fresnel lens which still serves to point the way to the East Tawas
Bay peninsula on which it sits. A new beacon and horn system is
maintained today by the US Coast Guard at the end of the peninsula point
that is also famous for the annual migration of rare Piper Plover birds
flying between Florida and Canada. Tawas Point State Park is a rare
nesting ground for these small, cute and interesting sea birds. If you
visit in mid-summer during the nesting season, some areas near the point may
be closed to human traffic to protect the birds.
6. A clay escarpment topped by sand provides the geologic formula for a
very large, natural, clear-water spring to pop out along the highbanks
adjunct to the AuSable River. Iargo Springs is a relaxing cool spot in
the summer and features a long-storied history with the region's native
population, read about it on the visitor's kiosk above the site in the
spacious parking area. Over 200 steps lead down to the spring's
platforms where visitors can see various tiny streams emerging from other
small springs making their merry way down to the beautifully winding AuSable river.
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Streaming Technical: The audio
stream is broadcast monophonically direct from our AM modulation monitor, you
are hearing the same signal that is broadcast over the air (audio processing
included). If you have an exceptionally good AM receiver with full 10kHz IF
bandwidth, you will experience a hi-fidelity frequency response closely
approximating that of the streaming service. WIOS's music is digitally "cleaned"
and equalized to provide removal of most analog noise, clicks and pops and is
enhanced for crisper highs and deeper lows on older recordings where that range
had been previously been restricted. Our transmitter bandwidth complies
with NRSC technical standards and the transmitted audio frequency response is
20Hz-10kHz. Rolloff occurs at the specified NRSC-G100-A rate with the
total bandwidth cutoff ending at 11.5kHz well within the limits of the FCC
analog AM mask. Older receivers without sharp IF cutoff response curves
can experience higher fidelity performance. Look for older receivers with
the AMAX logo or using vacuum tubes (valves) to assure best performance.
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