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"HD Radio Effort Undermined by Weak Tuners in Expensive Radios"
I am 60 miles northwest of New York City.
I don't expect to receive analog AM broadcast bands signals from NYC with any level of quality with an indoor antenna, especially with a home littered with modern electronics that throw noise all over the AM band. Sure the local 2kw stations come in like gang busters, but who wants to listen to Radio Disney all day ? To pick up NYC stations I threw up a 30 foot wire in the attic attached to a free piece of RG-59, and attached the outer braid to air conditioning air handler in the attic. Now I get all the NYC AM broadcasters with very little effort The article cited said they had problems receiving WCBS AM 880 in IBOC. Depending on his test dates 880 AM IBOC was off the air for at least a month doing some level of repair or upgrade work on their IBOC exciter. You can't hear what is not transmitted. Summary: IBOC on AM and FM is neat, but is analog or digital radio of any sort going to be used today in the age of IPODS ? |
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"HD Radio Effort Undermined by Weak Tuners in Expensive Radios"
Steven Stone wrote:
I am 60 miles northwest of New York City. I don't expect to receive analog AM broadcast bands signals from NYC with any level of quality with an indoor antenna, especially with a home littered with modern electronics that throw noise all over the AM band. Sure the local 2kw stations come in like gang busters, but who wants to listen to Radio Disney all day ? To pick up NYC stations I threw up a 30 foot wire in the attic attached to a free piece of RG-59, and attached the outer braid to air conditioning air handler in the attic. Now I get all the NYC AM broadcasters with very little effort The article cited said they had problems receiving WCBS AM 880 in IBOC. Depending on his test dates 880 AM IBOC was off the air for at least a month doing some level of repair or upgrade work on their IBOC exciter. You can't hear what is not transmitted. Summary: IBOC on AM and FM is neat, but is analog or digital radio of any sort going to be used today in the age of IPODS ? Were you referring to day or night reception of the NYC stations? You should be able to receive all the NYC 50-kw stations in analog during the daytime, using most any radio w/wo an external antenna, unless you have a severe noise problem in the home. You should also receive the NYC stations on your car radio in the day. 60-miles is within the regional coverage area for daytime reception by groundwave propagation of the full power NYC AM-stations. You may be within the skip zone for night reception of those stations. This can cause a cancellation of the groundwave and skywave signal, resulting in severe fading which can make a station almost inaudible at times. I'm about 200-miles from NYC and I can receive all of the 50-kw stations during the day on an R8B with a 60-ft inverted-L antenna. The signal strengths are typically S-7 with no fading of course. I can also hear those stations weakly on the car radio in the day if I'm located in a quiet area with the engine off. |
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"HD Radio Effort Undermined by Weak Tuners in Expensive Radios"
On Mar 29, 9:25 pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:
"RHF" wrote in message oups.com... On Mar 28, 7:52 pm, David wrote: On 28 Mar 2007 13:18:13 -0700, wrote: "HD Radio Effort Undermined by Weak Tuners in Expensive Radios" http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/7002/hd-radio2.html Eduardo - all three HD radios failed miserably. Nothing like first impressions for consumers - no wonder, with repetitive HD programming (even HD-1 is just a digital copy of the main analog channel - whoopie) and lousy reception with expensive HD radios, this turkey will never takeoff ! - I have the Recepter. - It needs a proper antenna but works very well on FM. - The AM sucks. David - Do your remarks refer to the : Boston Acoustics Receptor "HD" Radio ? http://www.ccrane.com/radios/hd-radi...recepter-radio... - The HD model sucks... - the mono one is the best table radio I have ever had. DE - "Sucks" ? I would expect better Language from you. ~ RHF Rewrite - The HD model is a poor performer... relative to the mono one is the best table radio I have ever had. |
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