HD Radio in 2010

[jasonharper2013]

In @10 There Will Be A power Increase From 1DB To 6DB For HD Siginal Plus Also 4 Side Channels (Up To Local
Station To Put 4 Channels)

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Just Found Out CBS Radio Will Put All Am Stations On FM/HD Side channels

 

[Ai4i]

Just Found Out CBS Radio Will Put All Am Stations On FM/HD Side channels

This makes perfect sense. Not a whole lot of bandwidth needed for sports or news/talk stations and nice clean audio.

 

[jras20]

Will this help me being 30-60-80 miles from the towers that I am getting fine on analog? What if I go under a lot of network cables and power lines away from the tower? I get static some on my analog radio when that happens in my truck going to work. I'm still not sold on HD Radio after having one in my truck and it not working.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Will this help me being 30-60-80 miles from the towers that I am getting fine on analog? What if I go under a lot of network cables and power lines away from the tower? I get static some on my analog radio when that happens in my truck going to work. I'm still not sold on HD Radio after having one in my truck and it not working.

Those same power lines will definitely cause loss of HD lock. So you will go from a compressed, but clean sounding AM immediately to a very loud, annoying powerline buzz. I frankly think it is a safety issue, because the change in volume is so abrupt. At least with analog AM, you have a chance to hear it coming and turn down the volume.

Nobody has proposed a power increase for HD AM. At least I hope they haven't, because the current system already produces too much interference.

 

[mgpt6]

in 2010,hope that HD-AM goes away.
Thst FM does get 3-6 db increase,so i can get 90% of the HD stations from Boston on my Sony XDR-10 instead of 50% of the stations.

 

[SirRoxalot]

Wake me up when somebody comes up with a portable HD radio for under $50 that doesn't eat batteries like Pacman eats dots. I guess that it might be possible since Microsoft built FM HD into a Zune HD.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

in 2010,hope that HD-AM goes away.
Thst FM does get 3-6 db increase,so i can get 90% of the HD stations from Boston on my Sony XDR-10 instead of 50% of the stations.

Or better yet somebody puts some compelling programming on an HD-2 channel that makes me actually want a power increase instead of the first adjacents I can get now.

 

[HowardMBurgers]

Those same power lines will definitely cause loss of HD lock. So you will go from a compressed, but clean sounding AM immediately to a very loud, annoying powerline buzz. I frankly think it is a safety issue, because the change in volume is so abrupt. At least with analog AM, you have a chance to hear it coming and turn down the volume.

Nobody has proposed a power increase for HD AM. At least I hope they haven't, because the current system already produces too much interference.

Uh, hey Bruce.. I think they were asking about whether the proposed power increase would improve things, but for FM.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Uh, hey Bruce.. I think they were asking about whether the proposed power increase would improve things, but for FM.

jras20 sounded like he was describing AM, not FM - and my reply was directed to that post. If his radio suffers from powerline interference on FM - he has a seriously sick FM radio.