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KUHA going HD?

Anyone think that KUHA might have HD installed to serve the northern part of the metro? The 40 km effectiveness of HD hits its fringe around there. KUHF programming might appear on KUHA-HD2 and Spanish-language programming is on HD-3 for both stations.

Oddly enough, the signal seems to be stronger these days than it was during the KTRU period.

The thought came after testing the Insignia HD-1 at my place in Katy. It worked okay but catching the sub-channels took effort and HD2 would go silent with a message during cell phone-like drops while downstairs. The best signal was achieved by stretching out the earphone wire perpendicular to the tower farm, preferably near a window on the second floor. During my last visit to The Woodlands last year, I noticed KUHF was prone to background static (sounded like slight multipath) on my car radio, and I guessed it was due to distance from the MO City tower farm. If the analog was susceptible to static, imagine the HD!
 
The quality of KUHA's signal and sound has greatly improved since sign-on. I would be very interested in hearing from their engineers about whatever tweaking they did to both the audio processing chain and transmission dynamics...
 
radiobop said:
The quality of KUHA's signal and sound has greatly improved since sign-on. I would be very interested in hearing from their engineers about whatever tweaking they did to both the audio processing chain and transmission dynamics...

I suspect KTRU was running less than 50 kw due to the condition of the transmitter and equipment, even though it was built to the maximum height and power the C2 license allows. They were having problems with the stereo signal back in March 2010.
 
KTN Corp said:
Anyone think that KUHA might have HD installed to serve the northern part of the metro? The 40 km effectiveness of HD hits its fringe around there. KUHF programming might appear on KUHA-HD2 and Spanish-language programming is on HD-3 for both stations.

This is just an educated guess, but I suspect a priority is a new transmitter to replace the 1990 unit. Then KUHA might launch HD.

Oddly enough, the signal seems to be stronger these days than it was during the KTRU period.

KTRU's audio always sounded low compared to other stations...not just from a compression standpoint, but overall levels. KUHA's audio has more punch.
 
radiobop said:
The quality of KUHA's signal and sound has greatly improved since sign-on. I would be very interested in hearing from their engineers about whatever tweaking they did to both the audio processing chain and transmission dynamics...

I don't know for sure, but no longer passing through a rack of STL & processing equipment older than the average KTRU disc jockey can't hurt.
 
KTN Corp said:
Anyone think that KUHA might have HD installed to serve the northern part of the metro?

I doubt it.

During my last visit to The Woodlands last year, I noticed KUHF was prone to background static (sounded like slight multipath) on my car radio, and I guessed it was due to distance from the MO City tower farm. If the analog was susceptible to static, imagine the HD!

You won't get multipath with HD in your car. There's enough time inside the 8 second buffer to correct the data errors. If you're in the fringe on HD-1, you will blend to analog and back once there's enough there to fill the buffer. If you're in the fringe on HD-2, the signal will drop out because there's nothing to fall back to. But if you're driving through the Galleria or downtown, HD will sound pretty nice.
 
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