CW said:
And this ladies and gentlemen is what you get when someone states an opinion without owning all the radios and likes to bash other people on the list.
Radioman, I have seen Mr carter5 post accuarate information here for years and his own opinions have been pretty good too....Your statement you made about him was evidently inaccurate as he DID post correct info on HD2 in SOME RADIOS..just not the ones YOU own!!
I think my statement above (modified from yours) is likely much more accurate than yours was.......so how about stuffing it for a while?? GEESH.....
Gladly, if the anti-HD contingency like rbrucecarter will "stuff it" for a while as well.
His post wasn't made in reference to the Sangean radios, it was a blanket statement about all HD radios that was clearly incorrect. As he has repeatedly stated that he doesn't own an HD Radio and has no desire to, I felt this begged for some correction, and I stand by my statement.
ANY HD radio will revert to analog if it loses the digital signal for long enough. The key words there are
long enough. It is not, as Mr. Carter asserted a constant switching back and forth. It takes time. On my radios, especially the JVC car stereo where it might actually matter, the delay is long enough to overcome switching back when listening in fringe areas. Perhaps the delay is shorter in the Sangean radios. There is some delay though, as Megapsycle also said it will switch back to analog if the digital signal drops out "long enough."
As for Mr. Carter, he is a DXing enthusiast, who like the others here, makes a habit of spreading misinformation about HD Radio. I only like bashing him because he goes out of his way to bash a technology that he doesn't know much about for the sole purpose of dissuading people from buying HD Radios. He hates HD Radio and wants it to fail because he believes it has a negative impact on his DXing hobby.
People can believe whoever they want. Mr. Carter, who regularly claims lots of kids in Lubbock are buying GE Superadios to DX Radio Disney on KMKI and thinks massive numbers of people in Dallas want to listen to the ABC satellite delivered classic rock format of KMAD in the metroplex, or you can believe someone that actually has some engineering experience with HD radio installations and owns several different HD radios.
There's nothing wrong with sharing experiences with HD Radio, as long as your experiences are just that - experiences, not misinformed opinion delivered with a clear slant against the technology.
