Guy (Yawn) Wire

[stacker]

http://www.rwonline.com/article/hd-radio-is-it-worth-the-effort/23658

 

[mmnassour]

There are now more than 15 automakers building the technology into more than 85 different vehicle lines, and more than 100 HD Radio receiver models are available at more than 12,000 retail outlets nationwide.

I wanna see a list!

 

[nd2023]

Well, 2 weeks ago I was on a first date with a girl and I couldn't help but notice she had an HD radio in her car. I was just awestruck by the mere presence of the HD radio. I could not believe it, an average person with an HD radio in her car. She hated the HD feature and intentionally disabled HD decoding. I thought the best part of my first date was seeing an HD radio, it shows that HD radio has finally arrived, even though she hated it.

Someday, my goal is to enable HD reception on that radio and tell her how good HD radio is. If it works out, HD radio would certainly put a buzz in our relationship!
Maybe it was a sign that the night after our first date, there was the biggest tropo opening of the year so far.

 

[Savage]

And from our "unsolicited advice" department:

Nick, my friend, I would suggest complete and total avoidance of any discussions of "HD Radio" on a first date. Just sayin....

Guy Wire: I know it's really boring, hanging around the engineering shop like The Maytag Repairman (while you await further instructions about new HD installations) but huffing inhalants like Blue Shower and WD40 is really dangerous.

("Guy Wire" is an unregistered service mark representing a certifiable loon with a nasty streak the size of Oklahoma, who hides behind a moronic nom-de-solder while he shamelessly stumps for the utterly failed tech "HD Radio." "Guy" alternates Baghdad Bob-style public absurdities about his pet digital radio scheme with virulent personal attacks on HD's critics. Sadly, RW does not appreciate his negative impact on the publication's credibility with the radio engineering community.)

 

[JohnnyElectron]

Any girl smart enough to disable HD reception for better quality analog reception has some brains! Heck, I'll divorce my wife and marry this chick if she's smart enough to recognize analog sounds better than HD stations that run HD2s!
Phone number please?

 

[nd2023]

She disabled it because the HD signals are marginal and it sounded weird when the HD popped in and out and the HD2s never worked well. Some stations still don't have the analog and HD1 synchronized. Just seems disappointing to see an HD radio in the wild, but it's not being used.

I think a lot of people would intentionally disable HD reception for the same reasons. There might have been a million HD radios sold, but how many are actively used by average people? I account for 5 HD radio sales. 2 are broken, and one of them is purely for DXing.

 

[RadeoEngineer]

Yeah, but did you get the second date?

 

[nd2023]

There was a second date last Sunday. Of course, there happened to be an e-skip opening the same night that I completely missed because of that. Good thing the e-skip didn't happen before the date or else I might have missed it completely, since that was a pretty good opening. And we drove to the place separately so I didn't see that lovely HD radio.

Isn't it sad that my love life is more interesting to discuss than HD Radio? Come on, there's gotta be some buzz to talk about!

 

[Savage]

Paraphrasing dialogue from The Oriental Lounge in the 1976 cult movie fave "The Big Bus..."

"Yeah. I'm tired of talking about buzz. Now I wanna talk about......HISS!"

(And dropouts....and dead air.......) : ;D

 

[davideduardo]

She disabled it because the HD signals are marginal and it sounded weird when the HD popped in and out and the HD2s never worked well. Some stations still don't have the analog and HD1 synchronized. Just seems disappointing to see an HD radio in the wild, but it's not being used.

I think a lot of people would intentionally disable HD reception for the same reasons. There might have been a million HD radios sold, but how many are actively used by average people? I account for 5 HD radio sales. 2 are broken, and one of them is purely for DXing.

That's my experience. I don't want any of the LA area HD-2 channels, as none offers anything interesting or entertaining... plus, when they "fold back" there is no analog to fold back to ("fold back" being a euphemism for "disappearing") so you get dropout that is worse than that on satellite even.

Any service issues with HD would likely have to do with showing how to keep the radio from tuning the "signals between the signals" (a lousy phrase, since most consumers do not manually tune radios today and don't understand the term "between" at all).

 

[calstymes]

Savage hyperjected:

("Guy Wire" is an unregistered service mark representing a certifiable loon with a nasty streak the size of Oklahoma, who hides behind a moronic nom-de-solder while he shamelessly stumps for the utterly failed tech "HD Radio." "Guy" alternates Baghdad Bob-style public absurdities about his pet digital radio scheme with virulent personal attacks on HD's critics. Sadly, RW does not appreciate his negative impact on the publication's credibility with the radio engineering community.)

This 'Guy' just never lets up. The only plausible explanation is that it must be the billions of dollars he is bound to earn when HD finally becomes a household name and so popular a product that the great unwashed public just cannot live without it.

My sides are splitting from the laughter.