I still don't think they are at full power yet. I have trouble through Pinellas County.
The analogue signal is off. The English language program drt refers to is probably WWNN, a 50kw from Pompano Beach.
Single channel as of now. Radio One petitioned for multi channel and was denied. More studies will be done before the FCC gives the green light.
There isn't enough bandwidth (20kHz) for more than one audio stream.
Thanks, Jeff in Sa-ar-so-ta, I think you hit the nail on the head; when the English programming was on, I did suspect it was WWNN 1470 from Pompano Beach, as in the past 3 or 4 years, WWNN from Pompano Beach, would start to overrides the 1470 out of Dunedin (it’s tower location at the time). WWNN was a frequent guest anytime after 12 noon from about mid-November through March, and I guess WWNN continues to be a frequent guest! 😊 1470’S signal when their towers were in DunEdwin, was always weak during the day from just north of downtown SP southward and at night their signal was totally lost when they cut power.
With codec modifications It will eventually happen just not now.
I'm not so sure. HD on FM frequencies occupies 47kHz on each sideband (53kHz to 100kHz). That's a total of 94kHz. It's possible to squeeze one good quality stream and three much poorer quality streams in the 94kHz bandwidth. With only 20kHz bandwidth on medium wave frequencies, I don't see more than one stereo stream with reasonably good fidelity. At medium wave frequencies, lots of redundant data is required to help correct for impulse noise.
As I said Radio One requested a waiver for a second HD channel during testing and was denied. So someone was working on something.
It's just noise.
Pretty much white noise. Hisssssss.
Actually WWFD has been testing running a second low bitrate stream with pretty good success. Of course the downside is; one louses the PAD data for artist/title/album cover art, and the second channel has to be mono and narrow response. Good for voice maybe. Personally, I wouldn't want to degrade my FM quality audio on my HD-1 channel by adding an HD-2, but it's good to know it's possible.
Well, forgive me, if this shows up more than once, but yes there is a Classical music format in the Tampa/Sarasota area, WSMR is WUSF’s classical music station; due to spacing issues with Gainesville’s NPR WUFT at 89.1, WSMR’s antenna could not be in the Riverview antenna farm; antenna is in or near Nokomis, south of Sarasota; WUSF’s HD 89.2 HD broadcasts the WSMR programming as well as the translator (103.9 on or adjacent to the U.S.F. Campus) so a large part of Tampa and the southern part of the Tampa Bay Area are covered by a non HD radio; but the HD2 signal is pretty good, on my HD radios; the HD2 signal is better than the 89.1 in s.e. St. Petersburg.
