September 6+

[billy2047]

I went to Ormond Beach in 2020 in my wife's car at the time. A Kia Optima, and it couldn't hold an HD lock on JRR. In the late 2000's I could hear JRR as far north as Palatka and TKS to around where the south end of 295 is now. In the early 2000's I could start picking up TKS in Gainesville and JRR just about the time I got on the turnpike in Wildwood. Just a lot more interference now then there was back then.

I've noticed the same thing in Ocala. In the early 2000s (before Hybrid Digital, LPFMs and translators were booming), Orlando's 100.3, 101.1, 104.1 and 105.1 used to come in static free. Nowadays analog gets staticky near Ocala National Forest

 

[davideduardo]

I've noticed the same thing in Ocala. In the early 2000s (before Hybrid Digital, LPFMs and translators were booming), Orlando's 100.3, 101.1, 104.1 and 105.1 used to come in static free. Nowadays analog gets staticky near Ocala National Forest

Note: "HD" does not mean "Hybrid Digital". In the words of its CEO when it was introduced, "HD" means nothing". The term was adopted to sound modern at the time that High Definition TV was on the market.

 

[CTListener]

Note: "HD" does not mean "Hybrid Digital". In the words of its CEO when it was introduced, "HD" means nothing". The term was adopted to sound modern at the time that High Definition TV was on the market.

Where did the "Hybrid Digital" misconception originate? The industry press? The internet?

 

[K.M. Richards]

In the words of its CEO when it was introduced, "HD" means nothing".

Never before was a meaningless term misinterpreted in so many ways to mean things it wasn't.

 

[RMarino]

Years ago (pre 2010s?) driving NE on I-4 I was able to receive FLZ all the way to Daytona near the I-4 & I-95 junction. It started to overlap with Jacksonville's 933 at that distance.

I believe it. Back in the late ‘80s, when WFLZ was oldies Z93, they used to play a liner than said “From the Suncoast to the Space Coast”.

Translators & LPFMs. I have cassette airchecks of Power 96 & Hot 105 in Miami, 102 Jamz & XL106.7 here in Orlando, Z93.7 Ocala when it was CHR, & even Power Pig, Q105, & WMNF in the 90s, all received from my hometown of Lehigh Acres in Southwest Florida. Today, there's 93.3 Tiger FM (one of my syndicated affiliates) in Fort Myers blocking FLZ, but FLZ sometimes overpowers it from the east side of Lehigh Acres.

Conversely, I lived in Bradenton and could hear DX of Orlando stations every night and early morning.

WRBQ is much weaker than WFLZ, very few people would be listening in the Orlando market.

I used to hear Q105 from Tampa all the way to the Disney parking areas, but a translator has killed that.

 

[RMarino]

Where did the "Hybrid Digital" misconception originate? The industry press? The internet?

I’ve never heard the term “Hybrid Digital”. I’ve heard the misconception that HD stood for “High Definition”, although I’ve known for years that it actually means nothing. But this is the first I’m hearing though about “Hybrid Digital”.

 

[CTListener]

I’ve never heard the term “Hybrid Digital”. I’ve heard the misconception that HD stood for “High Definition”, although I’ve known for years that it actually means nothing. But this is the first I’m hearing though about “Hybrid Digital”.

The "HD" in HD Radio standing for High Definition is a common misconception, too. The difference between that and "Hybrid Digital" is that High Definition was being used to market television sets years before the HD Radio concept was conceived and the product was introduced and marketed. There was never anything called "Hybrid Digital," yet suddenly, someone, somewhere, started using it and it caught on. (Just because you never saw or heard the term means nothing beyond that one bare fact. Other people have seen or heard it, including many of us on this board, inside and outside radio.) I'm just curious about where the incorrect term originated.

 

[RMarino]

Just because you never saw or heard the term means nothing beyond that one bare fact. Other people have seen or heard it, including many of us on this board, inside and outside radio.

There’s no need to be insulting. We all express our opinions on here.

 

[Mitch Brewer]

I always thought it stood for Heavy Duty. As in Heavy Duty RocknRoll. But back to the point (yeah, I know, odd for me) when you have a radio in HD and it has trouble locking onto the HD it will switch back and forth between HD and regular which causes what I call "clipping". When it goes from HD to regular the music skips ahead and vice versa when the HD comes back on. It's caused by the time delay between the 2 signals but it's very irritating while trying to listen. WJRR used to be perfectly clear in Ormond Beach but now there's a lot of interference.