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Raise your hand if you have bought a HD radio

I bought one last Christmas when Radio Shack had a major sale on one unit, about half price or something. I mostly listen to the WABE classical channel, but occasionally zip around the dial. I like the mostly music formats. I know one other person who purchased one during the same sale, mostly for the WABE all talk channel.

In the meantime, I bought a new car with Sirius satellite in it. Usually at home, I either listen to the HD radio, the Comcast music channels, or I'm sure I'll listen to Sirius once I get the boombox I just ordered during their special deal. Hmmm... where does that leave good ol' AM FM terrestrial radio? Well, I do listen in my car at times!
 
taylorengineer said:
How many of you have bought a HD radio? How many people do you know who have bought a HD radio?
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I have some stations under contract that have an "HD" signal on the air so I got a BA radio to monitor them. Two are 21kW ERP and the other is 10kW ERP. The BA can't hear the 10kw station and has trouble decoding the 21kW stations.

One of the Clear Channel stations up here is running "HD" promos, but they don't say you have to buy a special reciever. Someone listening to that, yet still hearing them in their glorious analog signal, promoting they are now broadcasting in "HD" is going to be confusing to the average listener.
 
Boston Accoustic 'receptor' at home, Kenwood and an adaptor which only gets HD1 in oen car. 16 Sangean tuners and table radios at the orifice. The Sangeans get the nod.
 
Bought one? Nobody even knows what "HD" stands for.

I'll have an HD radio when it comes already installed in a future stereo or new car.
 
I've got one. I like listening to WSB-am on the River's HD2. I miss Star94's HD2. Sometimes listen to Project 9-6-2 but it's very repetitive.
 
Not me, and I don't personally know a single person who owns one and have had exactly one person outside the business ask me anything about them.
 
I have the JVC HDR1. A real nifty radio; I'm disappointed at the programming choices on HDRadio multicast stations. terrain is an issue in San Diego county. Reception is "iffy" at best.

I have bought a radiosphy desktop and am optimistic.
 
OK....we've got five who own one and one lives in San Diego.
Inside Radio reports that after asking sales reps in 6-7 of the largest markets in the USA that they found ONE HD reciever....but it would not decode multicasts.
Bluegrass....Blues.....deep album cut R&R.....these niche programming examples(and others) are THE answer. Why is that soooooo not obvious to the suits at ClearChannel/Cumulus/Cox/etc.???
 
I have one, thought is was pretty cool when you could listen to the zone after dark even if was just to hear updates and ball scores.

A friend said that GTech used to use the Star's HD3 Zone signal to feed the dorms with Tech BB play by play at night.

You might be right Tom, that the brass at Star was embarrassed that an engineer was out programming them and that is why HD2/3 are off.
 
taylorengineer said:
OK....we've got five who own one and one lives in San Diego.
Inside Radio reports that after asking sales reps in 6-7 of the largest markets in the USA that they found ONE HD reciever....but it would not decode multicasts.
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I'd be interested to see if they can even find one sales person that actually listens to the REGULAR signal that they're trying to sell...much less the HD.
 
Roger That said:
I'd be interested to see if they can even find one sales person that actually listens to the REGULAR signal that they're trying to sell...much less the HD.
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That is so TRUE it is ALMOST not funny.
 
I guess I was not clear....the salespeople at the retailers i.e. Best Buys, Circuit City etc. have no idea about HD radio.(In theory - they are the ones who should know)
The radio sales weasel's lack of meaningful consciousness is an interesting topic for another day-
 
Roger That said:
I'd be interested to see if they can even find one sales person that actually listens to the REGULAR signal that they're trying to sell...much less the HD.
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Then again, how many salespeople work for a station that actually targets them?

(I'm not clear whether you meant listening by choice or for monitoring purposes)
 
I have two of them, a BA at home and the Accuarian from RS that I bought this past Christmas for the office. Back then I was really enjoying the HD2 channels on Star and 94.9 but since the oldies are gone from 94.9 HD2 and the HD2 and HD3 are gone from Star about the only thing I listen to now is WSB-AM in 97.1 HD2 in the morning for news, traffic and weather.

I would have never bought one if I had known that the HD2 channels would begin broadcasting pretty much the same thing as their main channels do.

In the car I listen to either XM or CD's.
 
I have a BA Receptor HD. My favorite station was Star 94 HD2 before it was killed off. Now I mostly enjoy the secondary stations on WABE. I have checked out 99X and Kicks 101.5 HD2 which are both very good. 92.9 HD2 sounded good at first but it gets repetitive.
 
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