Well, not free, but cheap and easy. I can listen 1550 AM on my little boom-box at home for the price of only 14 watts per hour. Unless I can rig it up with some sort of antenna the only other easy option after Friday is to use the FM tuner on my TV card at the cost of something like 150 watts to power the PC. My cell phone radio also can pick up 97.5, but then I have to bother with the connecting and disconnecting the earbuds antenna, and as noted, both options are fussy and hissy. [[who does that remind me of?)

Sorry that my typo caused confusion.