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AM HD TURNOFF PACE ACCELERATES

How many of those 202 left are CBS stations? I'll bet it's the majority.

What is the surplus value of a used HD radio exciter? Can they be recycled and turned into anything useful?
 
It seems to me like they just leave it on to spite the adjacent channel stations. I no longer report when stations take IBOC off. It just causes them to try to get the stations to put it back on.

The Class IV/Class C AMs have next to no service area in IBOC at night with 1000 watts, yet they persist.

It seems that WRVA has turned theirs back on, even at night. It interferes greatly at night with three of their coowned stations on 1130 in Detroit, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis.
 
audioguy said:
How many of those 202 left are CBS stations? I'll bet it's the majority.

What is the surplus value of a used HD radio exciter? Can they be recycled and turned into anything useful?
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Cuba may be interested since it would allow them to jam 3 AM frequencies at once.
 
I'd love to get my hands on a "junked" IBOC exciter and see if I could modifiy it to maintain an analog 10.2KHz audio frequency response on the L+R mono main channel with no adacent channel splatter; then have it generate ONLY the L-R stereo audio information with a 25Hz pilot so that you could use the millions of Chrysler and Delco CQUAM AM Stereo radios out there again, and reuse the IBOC exciters for something useful!
 
audioguy said:
How many of those 202 left are CBS stations? I'll bet it's the majority.

What is the surplus value of a used HD radio exciter? Can they be recycled and turned into anything useful?
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That is a good idea for a thread, what is the best use for HD radio exciters, actually never mind exciters, what's the value of a used HD radio? Could they be turned into anything useful?

AM IBOC stations now down to 199, dropping like flies lately.
 
KB1OKL said:
That is a good idea for a thread, what is the best use for HD radio exciters, actually never mind exciters, what's the value of a used HD radio? Could they be turned into anything useful?
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All HD Radios (that I know of) support RDS on FM, and many support C-Quam AM Stereo, so at least they're useful for that.
 
satech said:
"The Big One" 700 WLW turned off their HD. Barry's site says "Reported off Jan 2013".
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TSN 690 sounds a lot better at night now, just in time for the return of NHL hockey. Now the Montreal Canadiens games can be heard on TSN 690 over skywave without any hash from WLW.
 
With the readdition of 3 AM HD stations at CC Phoenix & WSPD in Toledo readding it, the number stands at 202. Why did they turn it back on?! :mad:
 
Let's have all the AM stations turn off their HD signal and revert to AM Stereo again. And maybe, one or two of them can start doing contemporary music on their stations.
 
Mr. Savage, you started a thread that really has legs. I suspect it will go on for about 5 more years until the AM stations running IBOC are in the single digits. I hope, for your sake, that WBZ will not be the last to shut down their IBOC. That would be a terrible irony for you! WBZ should follow the lead of WLW and put their signal on an HD-2. That would be an improvement in their digital coverage when taking into account the bad ground conductivity in New England.
 
950 WKDN (ex-WPEN) in Philadelphia has turned their IBOC off. Distant stations 940 WADV and 960 WHYL are now coming in clearly without any trace of digital hash from 950. Unfortunately, 950 has not turned their C-Quam AM Stereo back on (if any of the equipment for it is left after they rebuilt the transmitter site a few years ago).
 
I don't have an AM HD Radio to confirm this, but I have not heard hash from 600 WMT, 910 WSUI, or 640 WOI for quite some time. So that is potentially 3 more. WSUI and WOI are not even listed on the HD Radio website anymore (although honestly I do not know if they ever were) and WMT now has an FM simulcast.

I will see if I can't get confirmation back from IPR on WOI and WSUI to see if they are off for good.
 
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