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The timing was impeccable...

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dumber than a box of hair

Just as one of my local FMs was running one of the "time to upgrade" distressed-inventory HD "commercials" (commercials that do nothing to explain the product, nor do they say anything that make it a must-have), the Directed HD radio on my computer desk dropped out of HD back to analog...with a fixed external antenna pointed at the station's transmitter site 12 miles away.

The whole ball-o-wax in a nutshell.
 
dumber than a box of hair said:
Just as one of my local FMs was running one of the "time to upgrade" distressed-inventory HD "commercials" (commercials that do nothing to explain the product, nor do they say anything that make it a must-have), the Directed HD radio on my computer desk dropped out of HD back to analog...with a fixed external antenna pointed at the station's transmitter site 12 miles away.

The whole ball-o-wax in a nutshell.
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Wow! HD DX. ;D
 
Hey, box-o-hair, out of curiosity what is the ERP of the HD station 12 miles distant you were having trouble getting with an external antenna?

Suggestion for Strew-Bull: when you indulge in your Canute-like anti-web streaming lectures, why not deliver them in audio format?

I hear podcasts work really well. They're reliable, sound great, are consumer-friendly and the end-use hardware is already in place.
 
Savage said:
Suggestion for Strew-Bull: when you indulge in your Canute-like anti-web streaming lectures, why not deliver them in audio format?

I hear podcasts work really well. They're reliable, sound great, are consumer-friendly and the end-use hardware is already in place.
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Be like a modern form of fireside chats, good use for the HD radios too, lots of black smoke though.
 
I agree, those HD radio spots don't explain the product. Instead, it makes it seem like radio is going through puberty.
"Suddenly, you'll have more buttons to push, in addition to the buttons you have now"
 
dumber than a box of hair said:
Just as one of my local FMs was running one of the "time to upgrade" distressed-inventory HD "commercials" (commercials that do nothing to explain the product, nor do they say anything that make it a must-have), the Directed HD radio on my computer desk dropped out of HD back to analog...with a fixed external antenna pointed at the station's transmitter site 12 miles away.

The whole ball-o-wax in a nutshell.
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Soon they'll be running "Upgrade to analog" commercials to get you to spend even more of your money and to try to regain the disgusted listeners that abandoned listening to defective radio.

Soon they'll be running "Upgrade to analog" commercials to get you to spend even more of your money and to try to regain the disgusted listeners that abandoned listening to defective radio.

The commercials are counterproductive and urge that their current marketable product, analog broadcast radio, is obsolete.
Satellite, internet, podcast, WiFi, WiMax, iPod, or iphone, anyone?
At least those technologies actually work, whereas HD radio is "iffy" at best.
 
Savage said:
Hey, box-o-hair, out of curiosity what is the ERP of the HD station 12 miles distant you were having trouble getting with an external antenna?
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A full Class B: 21.5 kW/771' AAT.
 
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