Hi everyone! I bought a boston accoustics hd radio for 500 dollars and couldn't get any hd2 stations on it i thought it was because there weren't any in the Philly area but i know there are lots of them now! I live in the trenton NJ area would that keep me from getting hd2 stations in philly? complicating the issue is i can't see the display screen where the book tells me if i can get hd2 stations there should be blue arrows but since i am totally blind all i can do is turn the knob and hope to get something! the book says i should be able to turn the knob to the right (clockwisw) to get the hd2 signal but nothing comes in! any help on this would be appreciated! This help would also posibly encourage more blind people to get hd radios!
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- Thread starter marcus250
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honestly i don't know cuz when i scanned the book on my talking scaner i was only interested in how to get hd2 stations all i know is it has six buttons on the top outside and four buttons in a door on the top and two knobs what i found strangest of all is you access the presets by pushing in the tuning knob from fm to preset one to preset two to a.m. very strange!
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Radioman100
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Hey Marcus!
Here's the deal on the Recepter. There is no scan function. If you want to listen to an HD2 channel, tune to the main station then turn the tuning knob one click to the right. That will tune your radio to the HD2 channel if there is one. There will be a second or two of dead air then the HD2 channel will start playing. If the station has an HD3 channel, it will be one more click to the right.
That's what happens the first time anyway. After tuning to a frequency with HD2, the radio will remember the HD2 was available and when you're tuning back down the dial (turning the tuning knob left) it will land on the HD2 channel for each station first but it will appear dead for a second or two. After that, the HD2 channel should play.
Hope this helps!
Here's the deal on the Recepter. There is no scan function. If you want to listen to an HD2 channel, tune to the main station then turn the tuning knob one click to the right. That will tune your radio to the HD2 channel if there is one. There will be a second or two of dead air then the HD2 channel will start playing. If the station has an HD3 channel, it will be one more click to the right.
That's what happens the first time anyway. After tuning to a frequency with HD2, the radio will remember the HD2 was available and when you're tuning back down the dial (turning the tuning knob left) it will land on the HD2 channel for each station first but it will appear dead for a second or two. After that, the HD2 channel should play.
Hope this helps!
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Mike Walker
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Of course you should FIRST allow the radio to lock onto HD on the main channel. This should be obvious. Then "one step up", and you're there.
I'm legally (though not completely) blind, and understand the frustration of doing certain things, and being left out because of a disability only too well.
I'm legally (though not completely) blind, and understand the frustration of doing certain things, and being left out because of a disability only too well.
Make sure that you wait about 5 seconds until you hear the radio switch into HD (audio quality goes down) THEN you can switch UP to the HD2 channel.
It's my observation of my 3 FM-HD stations with multiple streams that the HD1 audio quality is lower than the analog on the HD1 HD2 pairs, wereas the FM stations with HD1 only have the same audio quality as the analog stream.
It's my observation of my 3 FM-HD stations with multiple streams that the HD1 audio quality is lower than the analog on the HD1 HD2 pairs, wereas the FM stations with HD1 only have the same audio quality as the analog stream.
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Mike Walker
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Well JohnnyElectron's right...if a 96db dynamic range, virtually perfect stereo separation, a high end not encumbered by pre-emphasis/de-emphasis, and vanishingly low distortion sounds like hissy, band limited analog FM stereo. Fortunately, it doesn't. You'll find FM HD to be brighter and clearer than analog, with a layer of grunge lifted, and noticably more precise, detailed stereo image. We visually impaired people do have better hearing, after all. Correction, we learn to be better LISTENERS. My wife hears better than I do (most women do). I LISTEN far better than she does.
I'll have to post the audio from an FM station here when it switches from analog to HD1 to show you what I mean. I even contacted the station manager, and he said he's aware of the degradation going into HD1, but said his engineer had to install a new HD program as the one that came with the unit would cause the HD transmitter to crash on a regular basis. He also said that's as good as it's going to get as they want to run the HD2 channel all the time too.
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Mike Walker
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I was a little harsh Johnny (my bad). I have also heard analog FM that sounded better than HD, just as I've heard LPs and open reel tapes that sounded better than CD. Bad engineering can trump the differences between technologies! The reason I resisted the blanket comment that stations with HD3 naturally sound bad on their HD1 stream, is that it just ain't so around here (North Carolina). The one HD3 station I receive, WFAE in Charlotte, still manages to sound clean, and in most ways better on HD1 than analog. Of course your mileage may vary.
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