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I submitted my review over two weeks ago (they claim it takes one week to get a review published) and with three follow-up emails, they so far have refused to publish my review. Radio Shack, after two follow-up emails, finally published my review, after a month. Here is the copy of the email, I just sent to Crutchfield, again. Looks like both companies only publish mostly-positive reviews. BTW, Radio Shack has misspelled the Receptor HD, as Recepter HD, so searching for the radio on their website, returns nothing ! 
Date: 10/5/06 12:41:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time
To: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
To Whom It May Concern:
I submitted the following review, for the Receptor HD Radio two weeks ago, along with a follow-up email, and my review has not been published; I noticed, that another review has just been posted. Would you please, reply to this request with an explanation, why my review was not published:
I tried this radio at an electronics dealer and could only get a few FM stations - the stations sounded exactly like analog AM/FM radio, but the analog AM/FM boom-boxes were able to get many stations. The Receptor HD had the supplied long-wire antenna attached, but is now being shipped with a 7-foot dipole antenna, which needs to be mounted high up and preferably outside; AM/FM analog radios just need the supplied internal ferrite-bar and whip antennas. In the case of HD Radio, the HD does not stand for high-definition, but hybrid-digital; HD Radio implements something called digital IBOC, which has only 60% the coverage of regular analog radio, poor signal penetration into structures, and causes adjacent-channel interference. When an HD receiver goes out of range of the digital IBOC signal, there may be a delay, as it switches back and forth to analog. HD Radio has extra HD channels, which evidentually, are just extra channels of low-bitrate streams of repetitive terrestrial radio. Save your money and get Satellite Radio, Wi-Fi Radio, or iRadio (iRadio will be appearing in Rokr E2 cellular phones), which have hundreds of stations; HD Radio just carries local stations. Wi-Max, or wide-area wireless access, will bring Internet Radio to portable devices, including automobile radios, by 2008. Sirius has just come out with the Stiletto, which receives Internet Radio via Wi-Fi hotspots, as Wi-Max will eventually allow for reception everywhere. Cingular and Sprint Wireless have 50 radio channels, available through their cellular phones, for a small fee. As a matter of fact, over 200 XM Satellite Radio and HD Radio stations are free on AOL Radio, so there is no need to buy expensive HD Radio receivers.
Thank you
Date: 10/5/06 12:41:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time
To: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
To Whom It May Concern:
I submitted the following review, for the Receptor HD Radio two weeks ago, along with a follow-up email, and my review has not been published; I noticed, that another review has just been posted. Would you please, reply to this request with an explanation, why my review was not published:
I tried this radio at an electronics dealer and could only get a few FM stations - the stations sounded exactly like analog AM/FM radio, but the analog AM/FM boom-boxes were able to get many stations. The Receptor HD had the supplied long-wire antenna attached, but is now being shipped with a 7-foot dipole antenna, which needs to be mounted high up and preferably outside; AM/FM analog radios just need the supplied internal ferrite-bar and whip antennas. In the case of HD Radio, the HD does not stand for high-definition, but hybrid-digital; HD Radio implements something called digital IBOC, which has only 60% the coverage of regular analog radio, poor signal penetration into structures, and causes adjacent-channel interference. When an HD receiver goes out of range of the digital IBOC signal, there may be a delay, as it switches back and forth to analog. HD Radio has extra HD channels, which evidentually, are just extra channels of low-bitrate streams of repetitive terrestrial radio. Save your money and get Satellite Radio, Wi-Fi Radio, or iRadio (iRadio will be appearing in Rokr E2 cellular phones), which have hundreds of stations; HD Radio just carries local stations. Wi-Max, or wide-area wireless access, will bring Internet Radio to portable devices, including automobile radios, by 2008. Sirius has just come out with the Stiletto, which receives Internet Radio via Wi-Fi hotspots, as Wi-Max will eventually allow for reception everywhere. Cingular and Sprint Wireless have 50 radio channels, available through their cellular phones, for a small fee. As a matter of fact, over 200 XM Satellite Radio and HD Radio stations are free on AOL Radio, so there is no need to buy expensive HD Radio receivers.
Thank you