AM HD in Miami/Fort Lauderdale?

[AMRocks]

I recently rented a car that had an HD radio in it. Although it was pretty cool to hear more stations on the air, I was hoping to hear an AM HD station, so I could hear how much of a difference there is between the analog and digital signals. But there were not any! I thought WQAM was in HD. Looking on the HD Radio site, the only station on there was 1260AM. I tuned in, but it was not in HD. Anyone know of any local (even Palm Beach) AM stations that are in HD?

 

[Ai4i]

The AM-HD difference is impressive.
The most spectacular part is hearing the background noise fade away as the muddled audio livens up.
It was like hearing the BBC-WS or any other shortwave broadcaster for many years, and then hearing them on SiriusXM, the local NPR station, or on line.

990 was HD when they were Radio Disney and 1260 was HD when I had an HD receiver a couple years ago, but they might have dropped it when the learned that my español is too thin for me to appreciate them...LOL.

The only way WQAM is HD is on an HD subcarrier of 96.5 and/or 99.9 FM.
You will also find 610, 790, 980, and 1470 to be analogue, but they, and maybe 740 from Boca Raton, are all on FM HD subchannels.

Sorry, but unless there have been other additions, and I doubt it, that is it.

 

[wavo]

Try listening to KMOX 1190 at night. It is simply dramatic to hear the static crashes and noise totally disappear to be replaced by that digital, velvet like quiet. The much complained about artifacts are very audible but it sounds mush better than the analog.

 

[davideduardo]

Try listening to KMOX 1190 at night. It is simply dramatic to hear the static crashes and noise totally disappear to be replaced by that digital, velvet like quiet. The much complained about artifacts are very audible but it sounds mush better than the analog.

You might have better luck looking for KMOX on 1120.

 

[Ai4i]

Try listening to KMOX 1190 at night. It is simply dramatic to hear the static crashes and noise totally disappear to be replaced by that digital, velvet like quiet. The much complained about artifacts are very audible but it sounds mush better than the analog.

I think you meant KMOX on 1120.
With FM, analogue and HD are totally different signals, so a distant HD can fade in over a local analogue. I wonder if it is the same on AM. Could ones AM receiver pop back and forth between a local analogue station and a distant HD one?