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"The FCC Tunes Into HD Radio--And May Turn Off Distant AM"

You can't get FM stereo inside a Circuit City without a proper antenna either. Geez!

As for nobody "owning" analog FM radio, again not true. Major Edwin H. Armstrong owned it. He generously GAVE the rights to use the technology to the allies during WWII. And the technology was STOLEN from him by RCA for use in television sound (and by others who used FM and paid him nothing). He committed suicide (it is believed) over the theft of his technology. But he DID "own it".

Corporations by nature are no more, or less "evil" than people. They ARE people.
 
Mike Walker said:
You can't get FM stereo inside a Circuit City without a proper antenna either. Geez!
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Actually, that is not true - at major retailers, every time I have tried FM on analog radios it has never been a problem, with the standard whip antennas. At Radio Shack, I tried the Accurian HD, next to a window and away from other electonics, and it failed to pick up a single FM-HD station, and we have many.
 
PocketRadio said:
Mike Walker said:
You can't get FM stereo inside a Circuit City without a proper antenna either. Geez!
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Actually, that is not true - at major retailers, every time I have tried FM on analog radios it has never been a problem, with the standard whip antennas. At Radio Shack, I tried the Accurian HD, next to a window and away from other electonics, and it failed to pick up a single FM-HD station, and we have many.
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How far away are they and how many do you have that you know have their exciters on? I don't know about you but when I tried my Boston Acoustics inside an electronics store, using the short wire that early versions of the radio came with, I was able to receive the NY HD stations and I was aboout 20 miles from Empire State where most transmit from.
 
I also tried the Boston Acoustics radio with the blue display, at a Fry's Electronics store in Downers Grove, Illinois. It only picked up three HD Radio FM stations reliably (all local); one of them actually had RFI noise until the HD signal locked. There was a LOT of RFI in the store, and the few Chicago stations that could be heard at all (in analog) were full of noise. Only three AM stations were audible in the store across the entire dial, and for one of them, the HD Radio signal locked with only occasional breakups. The other two flashed "HD" on the display but never locked.
 
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