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HD Radio In the East Bay

Is it the radio, or the stations? How many HD stations were you expecting to hear where you have the receiver?
 
My only HD radio is in my car, so needless to say, it moves around with me as I travel locally. I consistently bring in every local FM HD2 station loud and clear when in San Francisco, the East Bay (west of the Caldecott), and in the South Bay (San Mateo and northern Santa Clara counties). I've noticed that the reception on some stations gets hinky on 280 south of Mountain View and in parts of Marin. I don't think I've traveled in the East Bay east of the Caldecott since I bought the HD car radio.

I like the music on the HD stations, though I have to concede they're nothing special in a radio sense - they're just automated juke-boxes. That's probably all consumers can expect, considering that few people are listening.

Some other observations: KBLX does not do HD, and I suspect KREV doesn't either - not that I've checked. Most smaller markets don't do HD - at least not yet. Traveling to the North state, there are HD stations in Sacramento, but nothing else up to the Oregon border that I know of.
 
Lkeller said:
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Some other observations: KBLX does not do HD, and I suspect KREV doesn't either - not that I've checked. Most smaller markets don't do HD - at least not yet. Traveling to the North state, there are HD stations in Sacramento, but nothing else up to the Oregon border that I know of.
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92.7 is not likely to very soon. When I was in charge of that place, Harris quoted around $100K to upgrade. I kinda doubt the current owner is likely to spring for that.
 
Something to consider in the East Bay, is that in many many locations, you're listening to the Mt. Diablo on channel boosters. These boosters are NOT HD. Many parts of the Tri Valley, among others, are not listening to the mains. As you go east, in Livermore, for example, the mains kick back in and I've heard quite a few of the HD channels. There, at least my chief told me, plans to upgrade the booster site at some point, but with many different owners involved, the general state of the economy and the overall lackadaisical attitude about HD in general, the timeline for that upgrade is very up in the air.
 
I think that travisl5678 mentioned he lives in the Concord/Walnut Creek area. I'm not sure how many potential HD signals are bombing into that area.

If I bought an HD radio, and I lived in Pahrump, Nevada, I would not complain about being disappointed about how few HD stations and sub-channels I'm getting.
 
I can only get KDFC in HD on my Radiosophy cheapo receiver. Formerly, I could also get KOIT's oldies HD-2, but it doesn't come in now.
 
According to the PD at KDFC they do have an HD Booster for the Diablo Valley. KQED is testing a Analog/HD Booster for the Diablo Valley
 
Noticed yesterday around noon that Alice's HD-2 on 97.3, which I believe was "Chill," now shows "No Longer Available" on my Insignia NS-HD01, which -- all in all -- ain't a bad little radio.
 
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