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Sangean HDR-18 Memory / Sub-channels

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rbc

I have one of the early Sangean HDR-18's that doesn't save the sub-channel in the memory location. Has anyone bought a more recent sample? Do they store the sub-channel in the memory location now? My HDR-14 does. I was curious if they have updated the HDR-16 and HDR-18 to do the same.
 
They don't.
I wish I still had my Insignia (Sparc) or my Radiosophy had not broken.
They both remembered everything.
 
I've actually been thinking about creating a tabletop radio using a car radio. There a lot of options for radios there, and there are solutions for mounting DIN radios that can be used. Some assembly is required, but I think I can handle that.
 
I am using an HDR-18. The answer to the question is YES, they will store an HD-2 (or 3 or 4 (we don't have any HD-4 channels here)) to a memory slot.

They still do not power on to an HD-2 or 3, though. They start up on analog, and switch to HD-1. You then select the pre-set or tune using the dial to get to HD-2 or -3. I find that sort of irritating simply because I don't see a good reason for that limitation (recognizing I'm not an electronics engineer, so I don't actually know whether that would be easy or difficult to address that limitation).
 
A simple software fix would do the job.
I do NOT use mine as a clock radio and
would NOT reccomend it for that reason.
 
Sure thing, rbc.

FWIW, the HDR-16 (at least at this point) will also store an HD-2 to a memory location, but the -16 I’m using right now will ALSO power on to an HD-2, at least when you just push the power button. I haven’t tried it as an alarm.

Also, the -18 I have has a build date of around the middle of 2018. I have forgotten or just don’t know how to decode the tag on this -16.
 
My HDR-18 is running Host Version 1.11R P02, DSP Version 4.0. I think that's pretty early on. Anyone heard of user installed updates with the Sangean HDR radios?
 
I've not heard of user-installed updates, but would be very interested to hear of anyone doing it.

For reference, here's the info from my HDR-18:
Host Version 1.11R P06, DSP Version 2.0.11
 
Interesting that the DSP in mine seems to be quite a bit older, but the “Host” version is apparently somewhat newer.
 
Hey, another question about the newer HDR-18 firmware. Does RDS clock time work for you when you have a HD lock? My radio doesn't set clock time when it has a HD lock even when the station is sending it. I have to be tuned into a station that's analog only for clock time to work. I've been hoping that this gets added in the later firmware.
 
All I can really tell you based on mine is that when I turn on the automatic clock-set feature, when I return the next morning (radio is ‘off’ all night) the clock is WAY off. Either a station here is sending bad data, or the radio is misinterpreting what is sent.

I haven’t tried to mess up the clock by hand, then turn on auto-set, then sit and watch to see what happens.
 
bulwnkl said:
All I can really tell you based on mine is that when I turn on the automatic clock-set feature, when I return the next morning (radio is ‘off’ all night) the clock is WAY off. Either a station here is sending bad data, or the radio is misinterpreting what is sent.

I haven’t tried to mess up the clock by hand, then turn on auto-set, then sit and watch to see what happens.
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I have the same problem. My clock is way too fast. Taming the clock with RDS is important to me. I leave the radio muted while tuned into an analog station with good RDS time. I wish Sangean would do for the HDR-18 what is done on the CL-100. The CL-100 can slave the time to RDS while it's in standby. If we can't get RDS clock time to play nicely with HD reception, maybe they could allow RDS clock updating to work in standby mode. On the other hand, I think Sangean has also addressed the clock problems in newer HD radios. My HDR-16 and HDR-14 clocks are sufficiently accurate to leave them in manual mode. I think my HDR-18 clock issues have more to do with the manufacturing batch than a design issue.
 
rbc said:
If we can't get RDS clock time to play nicely with HD reception, maybe they could allow RDS clock updating to work in standby mode. On the other hand, I think Sangean has also addressed the clock problems in newer HD radios. My HDR-16 and HDR-14 clocks are sufficiently accurate to leave them in manual mode.
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I suddenly don't think we have quite the same issue. Standby mode (what I previously called power off) is _when_ mine updates itself to something goofy. My -18's clock is very accurate so long as I set it by hand and leave synchronization turned off. It has stayed exactly the same as time.gov since I've set it to match by hand.

My issue only comes into play if I let the radio set its own clock automatically (based on RDS, I guess?). When I do that, it sets its own clock overnight while in standby mode, and that setting is off by many hours when I come in the next morning. With mine at least, it's about either a local broadcaster having a badly misaligned time transmission, or the radio misinterpreting whatever is being broadcast. I don't know what frequency it might be 'listening' to overnight when it suddenly decides to set its clock wrong. Since the clock itself is very stable and accurate on mine, I just turn off the auto-set function and it keeps perfect time.
 
bulwnkl said:
I suddenly don't think we have quite the same issue. Standby mode (what I previously called power off) is _when_ mine updates itself to something goofy. My -18's clock is very accurate so long as I set it by hand and leave synchronization turned off. It has stayed exactly the same as time.gov since I've set it to match by hand.
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Interesting. It does sound like we have different issues. The CL-100 has a "Clock" menu where you setup the automatic clock setting in standby. My sample of the HDR-18 has nothing of the kind. I'm pretty sure I have a terrible clock. It drifts several minutes a day when not being set by RDS. I've identified local radio stations that send dependable RDS clock time. There are several stations that I now avoid, because they are sending incorrect RDS clock data.
 
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