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HD Radio

I brought out my HD radio again this weekend to see if I could get anything and I can't pick up any stations in HD by my house. Kinda dissapointed....
 
If Club Phusion goes on one of KIIS-FM's HD channels, I'm buying. I know I'll just be wasting my money though.
 
Neel Mehta said:
I brought out my HD radio again this weekend to see if I could get anything and I can't pick up any stations in HD by my house. Kinda dissapointed....

Still not half as disappointed as retailers that have to dust off their HD radio display units every week and the boxes of units in the back storeroom taking up valuable space for product that actually moves.
 
I think that LA HD-2's should simulcast SF sister stations, and SF HD-2's should simulcast LA sister stations, so KIIS's HD-2 would be WiLD and KBIG's HD-2 would be Star 101.3, and vice versa for WiLD and Star's HD-2's any thoughts?
 
That would be cool...but it won't be enough to increase HD Radio sales. Most people wouldn't care for out of town stations on the subchannels....HD Radio has to offer something to the general public that will really drive sales.
 
Did Clear Channel Upgrade The HD Siginal Because KYSR FM Comes in Perfect Again And All Weekend All Clear Channels Radio Stations Did Not Song/Artist Info All Weekend
 
musicman3355 said:
If Club Phusion goes on one of KIIS-FM's HD channels, I'm buying. I know I'll just be wasting my money though.

Clear Channel have been advertising Club Phusion on most of their Top 40, Rhythmic and Rhythmic AC outlets lately, so this doesn't surprise me.
 
If I just bought a HD compatible radio, would that be all I need for HD radio? I don't know much about HD radio and just thought I'd ask while it was on my mind. I may use it for when I have to listen to WWVA.
 
KDM 7000 said:
If I just bought a HD compatible radio, would that be all I need for HD radio? I don't know much about HD radio and just thought I'd ask while it was on my mind. I may use it for when I have to listen to WWVA.

Yes - all you need is a receiver with an HD2 band. In my experience, the HD2 stations come in as clearly as their HD1 counterparts, I live in a major metropolitan area (San Francisco) where reception is good. I've heard that HD2 reception in outlying parts of the Bay Area can be spotty.
 
I bought the Sony FM/AM Digital Radio, XDR-S10HDiP on Amazon.com for about $140. It's a desktop radio (not portable). I stretch the long t-shaped antenna, which comes with it, up to the ceiling and I get great HD reception. The only listen to a handful of HD 2 and 3 signals but the sound quality of the regularly programmed FM (HD1) and AM stations sound fantastic to me.
 
Why bother with HD at all? So I go out and buy a new radio that picks up all these HD channels and get the same 12 songs by the same 10 artists as I do on a regular FM station? I'm guessing that I'm missing something.
 
Lkeller said:
In my experience, the HD2 stations come in as clearly as their HD1 counterparts, I live in a major metropolitan area (San Francisco) where reception is good. I've heard that HD2 reception in outlying parts of the Bay Area can be spotty.

HD reception is horrible in a lot of areas of Los Angeles... the Westside seems to be one of the few areas in the metro area where it's solid. At least when the HD signal drops on an HD1, it reverts back to the analog (which is usually in synch -- although KROQ's HD1 is currently a half-second off from its analog signal so it sounds like it's skipping when it switches between HD and analog). When the signal drops on an HD2, the radio falls silent for several seconds while it tries to reacquire the signal lock, which can be annoying and, if it's a bad reception area and it happens often, can be frustrating enough to make someone change the station even if they like the song since they're missing half of it.
 
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