Anyone else having problems getting the digital signal. I haven't been able to get it locked all week. It looks like it's stuck in a loop because it shows the call letters and the HD light flashes, but it never syncs up.
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Power 107.5 Digital Signal
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It looks like it is working again today.
Pretty much unrelated -but- I just got an HDRadio yesterday and plugged it in. Wow the quality is impressive... when you can actually find a station using it. Ok so there are a handful of stations with HD signals but man it's disappointing the relative lack of usage. I guess people were right on here comparing it to the AM Stereo experiment. It's a shame.
CBusDave said:
It has a ton of potential, and once the car makers add it, there may be more interest. They need to address the power increase as 1% is not enough to cover the listenable analog area. 10% is propsed, but I think even 5% would help a lot. It also gives an advantage to stations like WNCI who currently crank out over 1700 watts digital, The Brew would be 24 watts.
V.Riley said:
AGREED! HD Radio is not what CC builds it up to be. Depending on the station and market, the HD-1 channel sounds wayyyy better than the HD-2.
CBusDave said:
I'm sure the market for HD Radios would improve if the local stations here would put something on their HD2 channels. Oh, and I'm not talking about more Talk Radio shows either. There are several stations I'd love to flip back to one of their previous formats on their HD2 channel.
V.Riley said:
The thing is that station owners don't want to spend money on HD2 programming because that programming will be heard by pretty much nobody. They'll wait until there's an audience. Unfortunately, I doubt there will ever be an audience for HD2 because there's nothing worth listening to on there. A vicious radio circle.
almaniac27 said:
Since they won't want to spend much money on it, they can experiment. Either revive an old format the station used to use (songs and imaging) without the jocks or tap into a popular internet stream. They might even be able to duplicate traffic/weather reports on the HD2 channel or maybe some of the commercial content, although not marathon commercial breaks like FM is known for doing on some stations. I seem to remember a new FM station over a year ago that stunted with a mostly 80s format for many many months. Not suggesting an All Polka music format, but heck it would be something to play with, maybe get some talk about HD going. Build it and they will come.
Heather1 said:
For those who don't have an HD Radio yet, they can actually hear STAR 107.9 at http://www.star1079.com
Would be nice to actually hear STAR 107.9 on HD. Guess that would be up to the folks at the 107.9 frequency.
willcail said:
For those who might be interested in buying an HD receiver, any recommendations, or warnings of what not to buy?
Heather1 said:
Unless you live south of I-70, you'll have trouble picking up 107.1 HD at all.
Heather1 said:
Does HD-2 share the "blend-to-mono" issue that plagues today's analog car FM radios (some more than others)? I.e., the further you get from the signal, the more the station loses stereo effect, because the radio manufacturers are designing to impress their audiophile competitors in the lab instead of the average listener on the road who wouldn't even detect the miniscule amount of noise caused by maintaining full separation? (This is even more annoying in bigger metros, or in outlying towns in Columbus-sized metros.) I would instead expect it be more like digital TV -- you either get a perfect signal (including full separation), or none at all. But I'm not very knowledgeable about this kind of thing. I recall that several years ago an "expert" told me that blend-to-mono would actually be even *worse* with HD radio.
Nu_Roo_2 said:
There is no blend on an HD2. Once the digital signal is too weak, you get total silence until it gets enough to buffer. A lot of these rimshots will need even more than the proposed 10% increase of digital power. The HD2 of all but the strongest stations is more of a novelty at this point.
The Radiosophy HD 100 recevier is a nice tabletop unit. It does have an option to upgrade the FM and the AM antennas. It does great with picking up distance analog FM and AM as well. It does have one headphone jack and one aux in jack to use the speakers only. It does have an alarm clock, and a signal indicator bar.The downside that there are only 5 presets per band. No direct key input
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