Can all HD Radio receivers receive HD4?

[greekradio]

I have a question about receivers capable of decoding the Extended Hybrid mode. I noticed that in the manual for the Kenwood DNR876S car radio and on the box (see attached photo), it mentions "This HD Radio receiver enables HD2/HD3." The same exact sticker appears on the box of the SPARC SHD-T750 home radio.

What about the Sangean HDR-14 portable radio? The manual is silent on HD4.

Does this suggest that these three radios cannot receive HD4, if present?

Can somebody shed some light on the situation with the MP3 Extended Hybrid Mode and HD4? Do not all HD Radio receivers support it?

 

[radiofan2023]

I have an HDR-14 but there aren't any HD-4 stations around here to check.

 

[CTListener]

I have an old Insignia (2006 vintage) and it receives HD4 -- or did, when WEBE Westport, CT, was running such a channel. I seem to recall ESPN Radio being carried there, and only briefly. I haven't heard an HD4 since, and given the technology's dead-man-walking status in terms of actual interest in listening to the subchannels themselves other than among radio geeks, I'd expect HD3s to become endangered next, rather than HD4s being activated.

 

[fybush]

The HDR14 can do HD 4.

 

[Theater of My Mind]

I have a question about receivers capable of decoding the Extended Hybrid mode. I noticed that in the manual for the Kenwood DNR876S car radio and on the box (see attached photo), it mentions "This HD Radio receiver enables HD2/HD3." The same exact sticker appears on the box of the SPARC SHD-T750 home radio.

I had a Kenwood car radio with a first-gen add-on HD radio tuner box circa 2007 and it received HD4, so I should think they all do.

 

[Negin]

The DaySequeerra commercial rackmounts can handle up to HD8 according to their documentations. I have one of their older units on my audio rack.

From their page:
Analog AM-FM plus HD Radio - Complete monitoring of HD Radio AM/FM broadcasts including FM multicast channels HD-2 through HD-8: user-selectable tuning steps and analog FM 50/75 µSec de-emphasis.

 

[sasha23]

The DaySequeerra commercial rackmounts can handle up to HD8

cannot imagine what the bitrates would be even in extended hybrid if HD1-8 were all operating simultaneously! Two or maybe three music channels and the rest spoken word only…probably wouldn’t work too well in a vehicle.

have an HDR14 and there’s only one station in the Chicago area using up to HD4, and that’s WCKL 97.9 …thought that WMBI 90.1 had up to HD4, at least a few months ago…last I checked, tonight, HD was completely turned off.

HDR14 works great about 30 miles out from the transmitter using the whip antenna.

 

[DXingRadio]

My Sangean HDR-14 receives the few HD4 options in the area. I also have the older Sangean HDT-1X which also receives any HD4 broadcasts as well.

 

[dxsphere]

I have a SPARC SHD-TX2, Sangean HDR-14 and a Sangean HDR-18 that all support HD4. I know the HDR-15 and HDR-16 support HD4 as well as the Sony XHD receivers.

 

[rjoc]

My HDR 16 could receive HD4 when I was in Florida last spring, but here in Eastern Maine the only other HD stations are Stephen Kings' WKIT HD1, 2, and 3; all of which will go silent at end of the year, as we have noted in muneerous other posts on here. Maine Publc Radio has it's classical network on HD2 on all of its stations.