I notice that a number of stores have BUY BUY BUY THEY MAKE GREAT XMAS
GIFTS AND YOU DON'T GET A MONTHLY BILL FROM SIRIUS OR XM! ads for HD
Radio receivers. So once there is a reasonable per centage of HD
receivers will MW DX be a viable hobby? Will anyone outside the local
area be able to get radio stations 10 kHz away if they live anywhere
near an HD xmtr?

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Tester wrote:

I notice that a number of stores have BUY BUY BUY THEY MAKE GREAT XMAS
GIFTS AND YOU DON'T GET A MONTHLY BILL FROM SIRIUS OR XM! ads for HD
Radio receivers. So once there is a reasonable per centage of HD
receivers will MW DX be a viable hobby? Will anyone outside the local
area be able to get radio stations 10 kHz away if they live anywhere
near an HD xmtr?

Edweenie will be along shortly to inform you that you don't need to listen to
anything but local stations.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

dxAce wrote:
Tester wrote:

I notice that a number of stores have BUY BUY BUY THEY MAKE GREAT XMAS
GIFTS AND YOU DON'T GET A MONTHLY BILL FROM SIRIUS OR XM! ads for HD
Radio receivers. So once there is a reasonable per centage of HD
receivers will MW DX be a viable hobby? Will anyone outside the local
area be able to get radio stations 10 kHz away if they live anywhere
near an HD xmtr?

Edweenie will be along shortly to inform you that you don't need to listen to
anything but local stations.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Actually, the piece-of-**** DE says that we don't have the right to DX !

Feburary 17,2009 is when all tv broadcast programs in America must
switch from Analog to HD tv.How will that affect DXing? TV sets really
are a form of Radio,you know.
cuhulin

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Feburary 17,2009 is when all tv broadcast programs in America must
switch from Analog to HD tv.How will that affect DXing? TV sets really
are a form of Radio,you know.
cuhulin

Yeah, and a car is just a form of horse, too.

David Frackelton Gleason, still posing as 'Eduardo', even though he's just a
fake Hispanic from Cleveland, wrote:

wrote in message
...
Feburary 17,2009 is when all tv broadcast programs in America must
switch from Analog to HD tv.How will that affect DXing? TV sets really
are a form of Radio,you know.
cuhulin

Yeah, and a car is just a form of horse, too.

You tell em, Edweenie!

(An Edweenie is just a form of fake Hispanic)

dxAce
Michigan
USA

On Dec 9, 5:22 pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:
wrote in ...

Feburary 17,2009 is when all tv broadcast programs in America must
switch from Analog to HD tv.How will that affect DXing? TV sets really
are a form of Radio,you know.
cuhulinYeah, and a car is just a form of horse, too.

DE - Hence the term "Horse Power" as it relates to Cars . . .

now there is something to think about ~ RHF

On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 18:44:41 -0600, wrote:

Feburary 17,2009 is when all tv broadcast programs in America must
switch from Analog to HD tv.How will that affect DXing? TV sets really
are a form of Radio,you know.

Hmm - that seems rather fast - not for the TV stations but for the
consumers to replace their TV receivers.

Of course, the British made all the TV receivers obsolete when they
went from 405-line VHF to 625-line UHF with PAL color available but I
think it must have taken decades for them to shut off the old
transmitters.


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Tester wrote:
I notice that a number of stores have BUY BUY BUY THEY MAKE GREAT XMAS
GIFTS AND YOU DON'T GET A MONTHLY BILL FROM SIRIUS OR XM! ads for HD
Radio receivers. So once there is a reasonable per centage of HD
receivers will MW DX be a viable hobby? Will anyone outside the local
area be able to get radio stations 10 kHz away if they live anywhere
near an HD xmtr?

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HD Radio/IBOC will fail - VERY few are buying HD radios, and the FCC
has not authorized IBOC for nighttime AM, so nothing to worry about,
yet. If you want to learn more visit:

http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index....ard,194.0.html

wrote

HD Radio/IBOC will fail - VERY few are buying HD radios, and the FCC
has not authorized IBOC for nighttime AM, so nothing to worry about,
yet. If you want to learn more visit:


IBOC DXing is rather fun. A real kick picking up an AM station broadcasting
IBOC at a small fraction of power relative to the analog main carrier in
digital sound. Having a DX station's call-sign displayed for instant
station verification is pure bliss.

So far my best IBOC dx catch with "instant verification" was about 500 miles
via grayline one morning. Keep in mind that until the analog broadcast
signal is turned off, the IBOC signal is transmitted at a small fraction of
the power that the main analog signal is broadcast. So any IBOC DX catch
made right now is indeed a remarkable feat. The night that AM stations
broadcast in 100% IBOC only with full legal power will really be fun.

There are a few AM IBOC stations that broadcast about an hour or so before
and after their local sunrise/sunset.

IBOC/digital DXing is no different than DXing other digital modes like CW,
RTTY, HDTV, etc... All the whiners are just concerned that they will have
to retire their analog R8 receivers along with their analog TV's to the
museum. Hopefully, the IBOC decoder software will be made available in the
future for free and in the public domain. That would make IBOC available
for decoding on any receiver using a computer. Imagine the possibilities
with a software defined radio such as the SDR-1000.