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Another thought on HD Radio

I agree RBruceCarter5 that HD works to great distances with a decent antenna. Still I find it amusing your question "How much freakin' coverage do the HD folks want?" It amuses me because the implication is that HD already works "too well"...in stark contrast to the "HD is a Farce", "HD DOESN'T WORK", etc. It's one, or the other! (I know, the truth is somewhere in between. Still, it's amusing).
 
Mike Walker said:
I agree RBruceCarter5 that HD works to great distances with a decent antenna.
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No disagreement there, but that feature/glitch/whatever-we-want-to-call-it is going to be HD's downfall, unless receivers get very sensitive very quickly (IOW, we need more tuners/radios like the Sony tuner). When you have several generations of radio users conditioned to not have to bother with antennas, telling them they have to use a "decent" one to get reception on that brand-spankin'-new radio they just bought is not gonna cut it.
 
Mike Walker said:
I agree RBruceCarter5 that HD works to great distances with a decent antenna. Still I find it amusing your question "How much freakin' coverage do the HD folks want?" It amuses me because the implication is that HD already works "too well"...in stark contrast to the "HD is a Farce", "HD DOESN'T WORK", etc. It's one, or the other! (I know, the truth is somewhere in between. Still, it's amusing).
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I think the HD is a farce comments come from other people. The farce aspect of it is lies about how many receivers have been sold, etc.

AM HD does NOT work very well - KAAM is 9.6 miles from me, and yet it takes an 8 foot loop to get reliable HD from it. I have never had HD lock on anything at night. Nothing wrong with the tuner, it is actually pretty sensitive as AM sections in component tuners go.
 
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