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rbrucecarter5
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Haven't had a problem in either environment. My sympathies to anybody who has to drive in a concrete jungle. My experience in downtowns of cities is that traffic is horrendous. You would be better off walking. As for heavily wooded - signal punches right through. Maybe YOU need a better satellite radio.
My HD radio is just fine. 70 plus miles of HD range. Same radio that gets spotty reception of Dallas stations in Houston. Plenty of sensitivity there. Plus I have a 31 inch whip and not an inadequate shark fin or nub. But it still gets HD dropouts all over town, sometimes as little as 20 miles from full class C stations where I can see the 2000 foot towers in the distance. I have rented cars with those stub antennas - and stock radios are not very good. I am sure a couple of the radios had HD capability, but the radio never locked on it. But they also had satellite, which worked fine. Some of those rentals were in cities on the East Coast, one in San Francisco, too. Mountainous terrain. No problem with satellite, but even analog FM was shockingly limited due to the terrain. In a lot of those cities, I don't see how HD would be viable since it seems to take a much better signal than analog. My 70 miles is over flat terrain from full class C. In places I went, I bet HD wouldn't make 20 miles if that. Frustrating for those folks, I feel for disenfranchised listeners trying for HD-2 formats. Houston is no better, we just had month long outages of two HD-2's. So there is little point to HD radio anyway. If HD-2 has the format you want and it is down or you can't get it, it is no good to the listener. I'm probably a convert to HD radio, because I get benefit from HD-2. But if stations here don't take it seriously, why should I? And if it is all screwed up in the majority of markets that have hills and buildings blocking HD radio, and satellite is more dependable, I'll tune in satellite instead of HD. At least it will be there.