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HD Radio

vsa said:
HD Radio? What's that?
HD Radio or IBOC is the prime reason radio engineers should not do ludes. ;-)

Seriously, anyone who thinks putting digital carriers on half of both first-adjacent channel stations should not be allowed to speak EVER!

Imagine: 106.7 spraying digital on the top half of 106.9 and the bottom half of 106.5 while both aforementioned sprayed on stations can stomp on KROQ's HD carriers. Not to mention 106.7's digital carriers lean right against the digital carriers of 106.3 and 107.1. Maybe that's what HD stands for in predicting its success; Highly Doubtful. :p

vsa said:
Can I listen to radio stations on my HD-TV?
Actually, that's a much better idea as you can broadcast audio only DTV channels (New Jersey Network does this) with the same coverage as the main DTV channel. KCBS & KCAL can both handle the LA CBS radio stations in 192kbit Dolby Digital in 2.0 or 5.1 if the genre has enough material.
 
ever heard a 48kbit mp3? it sounded like dog poop right? imagine cramming two 48kbit data streams that sound like garbled trash -- and wa-lah you have hd radio. do your friends a favor and tell them not to waste their money on this garbage.

oh and regarding the signal that transports those wonderfully distorted 48k data streams... they are signals at 1/100th the power level of the main station. so if you're listening to kroq which i believe is about 6500 watts... that means the hd signal is 65 watts... on and where oh where do they put that 65 watts? well half of it goes on the high side of 106.5 (of which there is a 106.5 in san diego) and the other half goes on 106.9. guess what happens when the summer weather kicks in and the san diego stations start to come in up in orange county... bye bye to the hd signal.

i don't think they would have come up with something this bad if they had been on ludes, they must have been on something much stronger.. perhaps something we have never heard of
 
I posted this observation over a year ago and it remains true.

The next person I know who buys and HD radio will be the first.

HD Radio: So much talk, so little (useful) product.
 
klos sounds like a blender... 3 stations on one 96kbps is too much guys.. come on - give our ears some mercy. just dump the hd 2 signal and give that cheeseball kabc-am the lowest data rate you can assign
 
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