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WWWT (WTOP News) has an HD-5???

HTX said:
No. The music on HD3-HD5 although I'm sure they don't care about HD5 sounding the best if it's just for the translator.
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Some HD Radio equipment providers allow more massaging of where the bits are allocated than others. For example; on Nautel Importers, you can turn on HD-1 through 5, but bit priority defaults to HD-1, which makes sense. The remaining bits for HD-2-5 are then dynamically allocated through a form of statistical multiplexing depending on content needs. If HD-5 has music with greater frequency response or dynamic range needs, it will garner more remaining bits than say voice-only channels on HD-two through four.
 
IIRC a translator that is "HD feed" can have the connection "wired". So even a poor HD bit rate can sound okay because there is a regular STL feeding the translator in reality. The translator is supposed to go off if the HD fails. I have never heard of anybody getting fine for this.

IMHO I would rather see the FCC go after pirates than worry about than worry about a translator's HD feed.
 
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secondchoice said:
IIRC a translator that is "HD feed" can have the connection "wired". So even a poor HD bit rate can sound okay because there is a regular STL feeding the translator in reality. The translator is supposed to go off if the HD fails. I have never heard of anybody getting fine for this.

IMHO I would rather see the FCC go after pirates than worry about than worry about a translator's HD feed.
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Agreed on the FCC.

You are right. Some years ago (fuzzy memory) the FCC changed the requirement for the audio to be fed from the primary channel. The issue was exactly what we were talking about here. Either a low quality HD subchannel or an AM station.

@secondchoice Nice talking to you here in "foreign territory". :)
 
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