Digital AM Radio

[IBOCRocks]

Revision 2 is the most recent revision to HD Radio standard implementation for improved reception. I would contact your HD radio's maker or iBiquity for what should be the free upgrade.
The new HD Radio recievers are promising to include the new, improved, revision 2 circuits in their new radios such as the Radiosophy, which is scheduled to be available soon.
No, it has nothing to do with Windows nor any of the other innuendos, abberations, or sales hype HD supporters enjoy including in their posts.

No, 2.0 is a design spec, for manufacturers to construct receivers around a newer chipset. It gives the technical criteria on how to build a radio around a different "master" or core chip... everything from power supply needs to the pin-outs and such.

In other words, it is a raodmap for manufacturers to help them build receivers that work well.

There are no upgrades, any more than Intel is going to send you a new and free CPU every time they build a better chip.

So you are saying there is no hope for those who listened to HD Radio promoters, and their promises of upgradeability, and recently purchased Boston Acoustics Receptor HD Radios?
Many BA HD Receptors are still deaf in spite of the new external antennas.
I guess the suckers that bought into the HD Radio hype can't get the upgrades/updates they were promised. It seems BA HD Receptor customers are now SOL, in spite of the fact that many of the HD receptors are deaf and only a few months old.
The CPU manufacturers never promised new CPU's. But if their new CPU's don't work properly they are obligated to fix or replace them.

Let me type slow so that you can follow along.

2.0 has no new features. Just like the different C-QUAM chipsets over the years (smaller and less power-hungry) these new chipsets do NOT obsolete old ones. They do the same thing in a smaller form factor. There would be no reason to want to send your current radio in to get it replaced.

I know you don't like hearing the truth, but there you go...

 

[davideduardo]

So you are saying there is no hope for those who listened to HD Radio promoters, and their promises of upgradeability, and recently purchased Boston Acoustics Receptor HD Radios?
Many BA HD Receptors are still deaf in spite of the new external antennas.
I guess the suckers that bought into the HD Radio hype can't get the upgrades/updates they were promised. It seems BA HD Receptor customers are now SOL, in spite of the fact that many of the HD receptors are deaf and only a few months old.
The CPU manufacturers never promised new CPU's. But if their new CPU's don't work properly they are obligated to fix or replace them.

The BA is simply not as good a radio as it could have been. This is like saying a Daewoo is not as good as a Honda. First try, not too bad, but lacking in filtering of the digital display, which creates noise which makes weaker signals harder to hear... if you remove the antenna to a loication farther from the radio, it works fine... get a Terk and use a shielded lead.

The rest of the first generation HDs were pretty good, including the Kenwood car model. The more recent BA models are reputed to have better performance, which could be achieved by better shielding the digital display.