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HD Radio For $30 At Radio Shack

DJ Mo

DJ Mo

Just bought an HD Radio from Radio Shack on clearance for just $30! It was the last one in the store I went to.

There's actually a jock on Z88.3HD2 "YHot" at this hour, maybe voicetracked. Impressive.
There's no 94.5HD3 "Old School" as listed on the HD Radio website. :(
If 95.3 Party was on HD2, I'd be enjoying my new tuner more.
 
Yep! The Shack is getting out of the HD Radio business. Does not bode well.
 
Aren't they just called The Shack now? They even dropped the word Radio from their brand name. HD radio is a failure just as AM stereo was.
 
Yes, I think so....trying for a hipper image. Not that place that sells vacuum tubes and patch cords anymore. (lol)
 
Until they're standard in cars, HD will never catch on. Too bad. Some of the HD stations are commercial free.
 
We have exactly one HD station on FM in our market, and I've never listened to it as its a SAM format anyway.

$30 would be too much to receive one station. HD is the Edsel of radio.
 
One? What market are you in -- Antartica? Aren't even the smallest markets running multiple Hd signals. I Vt a small market station and I know that cluster is running like 4 Hd signals by itself.
 
muskrat14 said:
One? What market are you in -- Antartica? Aren't even the smallest markets running multiple Hd signals. I Vt a small market station and I know that cluster is running like 4 Hd signals by itself.
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The middle of Virginia, and I should clarify, that even with a very good quality antenna, DC and Richmond stations are marginal at best. HD even less so.
 
The tuner is extremely light & it doesn't get hot at all after listening for hours.
I'm enjoying it very much. I could take it home to Ft. Myers & enjoy more stations there if I wanted to.

Ever since it was introduced a few years ago, I've always wanted one.
Saw an email announcing HD radios were on clearance at Radio Shack earlier this week.
So I stopped by the closest location & snagged the last one there.
Very happy with my purchase, even though I wish there were more DIFFERENT niche formats to choose from here.
 
Here's the other thing about HD radios: A by-product of the use of that Texas Instruments chip is unbelieveable image rejection, sensitivity and alternate channel selectivity on standard analog FM, even when used in a 'walkman-type' headphone radio. On my JVC HD car radio, I'm able to tune in first adjacent freqs even when there's a 100,000 watt local right next door. It's spooky. And, if there's no signal there, I get tuner noise and not a trace of the big signal on the adjacent! Even if HD radio tanks, I hope manufacturers continue to use the chip in standard analog fm radios.
 
johnsummers said:
Here's the other thing about HD radios: A by-product of the use of that Texas Instruments chip is unbelieveable image rejection, sensitivity and alternate channel selectivity on standard analog FM, even when used in a 'walkman-type' headphone radio. On my JVC HD car radio, I'm able to tune in first adjacent freqs even when there's a 100,000 watt local right next door. It's spooky. And, if there's no signal there, I get tuner noise and not a trace of the big signal on the adjacent! Even if HD radio tanks, I hope manufacturers continue to use the chip in standard analog fm radios.
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Reminds me of my Philips 4GB MP3 Player. During the impressive tropo last spring I picked up WDUV in Gainesville. Next to Kiss 105.3. WFUS 103.5 next to WRUF 103.7. (100,000 Watt Flamthrower 5 miles down the road.) and WPOI 101.5. (101.3 and 101.7 being local.) Bought the thing for $40 at Target.
 
muskrat14 said:
Until they're standard in cars, HD will never catch on. Too bad. Some of the HD stations are commercial free.
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In auto use, the carrier switches back to analog when the IBOC signal is too weak. The complaint is that the loudness changes, as well as the sound (96kbs or less vs analog) making listening while in motion very miserable.

Good riddance to the whole concept. It has ruined the fringe coverage of the 1st and 2nd's and is not free encoding software.

To do it right, Congress would have to sunset the analog, which is hard to do with an estimated 1 billion analogue AM/FM receivers in the US.
 
Plus cars are still being sold with anolog radio's in them, you can get anolog radio's on sony boomboxes, and other receivers... Its not like there's only this many anolog sets that were made and we ain't makein them anymore...
I dont see the point in getting HD, especially since the internet streams are good enough for the HD stations.
In some cases the net broadcast Stereo streams ware as the AM is mono. Go figgure.
 
As for a single station in the market, there is no HD signal throughout the Florida Keys, not even WKWM, only a little signal from WDNA, transmitting from near Homestead. We have a JVC in the car and it seems to have a decent tuner given all the electrical issues in our car, wish it got standard RDS, it does not, don't know if it gets C-Quam. The Radiosophy gets standard RDS, but squozen into the left half of the display. Think it gets C-Quam because distant AM's sometimes false the HD lamp which might also show the presence of C-Quam.

Gamefreak, one cold morning in 1973, 103.5 from Fort Lauderdale came in so strong that it nearly matched 'RUF's signal by 13'th & Univsity. They were 100 Kw but had their antenna on that one AM stick that is taller than the other three and is likely still used by the AM for nondirectional in the day. There was no Ex band back then, but we had a shortwave receiver, and wonder if the AM still blankets the market on the second harmonic, 1700 KHz?
 
Wasn't the sony XDR-F1HD just as good on anolog as a Yamaha T-85 with modified filters?
Didn't the Sony have a coaxial connection for FM? I could hook that up to have another radio to DX or aircheck with. Wonder how the Turk Advantage would do on that sony?
Then again, maybe sensativety and sullectivety has gotten better then the Yamaha on FM these days.
 
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