"DIGITAL SIGNALS SPARK STATIC FROM AM RADIO"
By SARAH MCBRIDE March 2, 2006
Bill Harms of Elkridge, Md., likes to listen to Frank Sinatra crooning
on Vegas Radio, which broadcasts at WTRI-AM 1520, a Washington-based
station. But over the past year, he's had trouble tuning in to Vegas
as he drives through certain neighborhoods. As he complained to WTRI
owner Buddy Rizer in an email, ''there's a hiss, a hiss that did not
exist in the past.''
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Re: ANOTHER BOSTON ACOUSTICS RECEPTOR HD RADIO REVIEW
René --- yours is the 2nd review that indicates an outside FM antenna
is a necessity for this radio, meaning it will never be a workplace
radio in this form! Take away radio's at-work listening and you have
lost at least a third of total listening. And really, who besides us
radio geeks is going to put up an outside antenna at home? So write-
off at home listening too. Add to that the fact that static does not
go away on AM, plus this is an expen$ive radio; and this seems to
confirm what many of us have suspected; Ibiquity has been far far too
optimistic and this technology is NOT ready for prime time, especially
on AM. As for FM --- does the average consumer care about a slight
improvement in the high end? Hmmm --- did I just hear a bell toll? 73,
(Bruce Collier, York, PA, dxhub yg via DXLD)
The other interesting thing I neglected to mention about the Receptor
is that it is designed to be a clock radio. How many people are going
to run an FM antenna into their bedroom from outside. This is even
more unlikely than those who have FM tuners in the stereo systems! For
clock radio use, I’m sticking with my trusty Sony Dream Machine. 73,
René (Rene' F. Tetro, Chief Engineer Salem Communications -
Philadelphia WNTP-AM/WFIL-AM, ibid.)