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Good AM HD antenna

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aircapjim

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Hey there,

I recently bought an HD radio. I have been able to pull in 1430 in HD (sounds just like FM). However, I can't get any other stationhere in Antioch. Do you know of a good HD AM antenna that I could get? Also, is WVOL in HD now? whenever I turn to 1470 the HD pilot light blinks, but the signal doesn't come in in HD.
 
You could try making the antenna longer, it helped AM analog from my past experience.

Let me know what your results is, if you try this.


I know when I made my AM antenna longer it made AM analog not fade out as much, made stations come in further and stronger.
 
aircapjim said:
Hey there,

I recently bought an HD radio. I have been able to pull in 1430 in HD (sounds just like FM). However, I can't get any other stationhere in Antioch. Do you know of a good HD AM antenna that I could get? Also, is WVOL in HD now? whenever I turn to 1470 the HD pilot light blinks, but the signal doesn't come in in HD.
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WVOL is not in HD. John Heidelburg, the owner. can't afford to put WVOL in HD. He is in AM Stereo. I love John to death , but I don't understand why he makes a big deal about it,when there are no AM Stereo radios out there tuned in. I told John he would be better off not to promote the AM Stereo stuff. It does him no good. He gets on there air telling people to go to ebay and buy an AM Stereo Radio.
 
What made AM Stereo not go over so well, I heard yrs. ago they had different patents, and the radios would only get a certain AM Stereo format kinda like MP3 or CD. I'm not sure on this?

They need to make room on the FM band so some AM stations are turned off so they can try AM HD on vacant dial settings rather than trying to destroy someones station.
 
aircapjim said:
I recently bought an HD radio. I have been able to pull in 1430 in HD (sounds just like FM). However, I can't get any other stationhere in Antioch. Do you know of a good HD AM antenna that I could get? Also, is WVOL in HD now? whenever I turn to 1470 the HD pilot light blinks, but the signal doesn't come in in HD.
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WLAC is the only other AM HD station in Nashville. It's probably easier to receive on WNRQ 105.9's HD3.

Radio Shack recently started selling an AM loop antenna. I haven't tried it yet, but it might help.

I get a lot of "false alarms" on AM, where the HD light blinks but there is no apparent HD station on the frequency.
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signalid said:
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What made AM Stereo not go over so well, I heard yrs. ago they had different patents, and the radios would only get a certain AM Stereo format kinda like MP3 or CD. I'm not sure on this?
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There were five systems proposed. The FCC initially approved one system, and as you might guess the other four promptly sued... so the FCC approved all five and told the marketplace to sort it out. The marketplace chose system #zero... Eventually, Motorola was the only system for which any equipment was being made, and it ended up finally getting the FCC nod. By then it was way too late.

(not that, IMHO, AM Stereo really accomplished anything. The problem with AM is not mono, it's interference & noise.)

They need to make room on the FM band so some AM stations are turned off so they can try AM HD on vacant dial settings rather than trying to destroy someones station.
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Much easier said than done. The FM band is crowded enough.
 
Lengthening the antenna, coupling it with a better antenna, or use an outdoor long wire. Any one of those will help. C Crane has a passive antenna tuning coil that works just by being in the proximity of the AM antenna. There is also a half wave FM dipole with loading coil that works in the AM range. Just as important for HD AM is isolating the antenna from unwanted noise sources. Light dimmers and other devices can obscure an otherwise usable signal. In some neighborhoods, the ambient electrical noise makes distant listening difficult in any mode.

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signalid said:
You could try making the antenna longer, it helped AM analog from my past experience.
I know when I made my AM antenna longer it made AM analog not fade out as much, made stations come in further and stronger.
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[size=10pt]HD & AM Radio....2 phrases that are "OUTTA PHASE" w/ each other! hehehehehe ;D[/size]
 
I wouldn't spend much moneyon it. it is very unstable technology and has lot of troubles that is the nature of the airwaves for the most part. not at all what they are marketing and a lot of bs even if you are close to the station it might not pick it up very good.
 
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