R.F. Burns said:
radiopilot said:
R.F. Burns said:
radiopilot said:
R.F. Burns said:
radioskeptic said:
For those of you who want to see how ordinary radio geeks who haven't taken part in the debates on this board really feel about iNiquity's flawed technology, at least in its AM version, see the thread, "WPHT IBOC."
(Here's a link:
http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,73509.0.html)
Note that except for one post from "Bill_W", there's nothing even remotely favorable to "HD" here. (And I'm posting a link to this post at the Phila. board so that the regulars there will be on the lookout for any sudden flurry of comments form the pro-IBOC regulars on this board!)
"radio geeks"
Who cares what they think about HD. They are a small minority of people who do nothing to enhance the industry. Business decision; 50 radio geeks or 5 million average listeners... Who should be cater to?
Funny, but aren't you a 'radio geek' giving your take on HD radio here on this board? I imagine you do nothing to enhance your industry.. OH that's right you and 12 others in NYC doing your finest to insure HD radio is a success there.
5 million average listeners are saying 'HD What?'. :
Radiopilot
No, I'm someone who has made a carreer in broadcasting in the nations largest market. That wouldn't make me a geek, it would make me a success in the broadcast industry. Again, you are proven wrong. How is it possible for you to be wrong so many times?
I'm an aerospace engineer with 29 years of experience with major companies like Boeing, NASA, Lockheed Martin, Pratt & Whitney, General Electric and a host of other major 500 companies and considered an expert in my field, now if that doesn't make me a 'geek' in my field I don't know what qualifies...
Could be I'm wrong about the radio industry and maybe I'm not but I'm informing myself daily about how HD radio at least AM HD is not going anywhere, I at least do know this technology is not going into the very hands it needs to be going to if it's to be a success, time and time again people post very good links, posts, etc. of the very age bracket radio needs to attract, but you guys are so blinded to this fact because in your local the cume says it's great, because you work in radio, but in reality you have no idea it's great, you keep on oiling those gears in the hopes it's all working, but the rust is coming like it or not!
Radiopilot
But your comments about what is good for broadcasting ala HD radio would be like my telling the aerospace industry that they should consider the use or alternative methods to achive their goals/ What is it they say about opinions? Well if I were to weigh the value of someones comments it would be someone who has worked in a specific industry as opposed to someone who has done a little reading. I went to college in the 70's and much of what my professors told me while idealistic, turned out to be plain wrong in the real world of broadcasting. You are welcome to your opinion but unless you can bring more to the table like the fact that you have used HD radio (and other digital platforms) and can state that X,Y & Z are issues which will cause digital radio to fail. If however you or others are moaning the loss of first adjacents and Dxing, imagine my commenting about how the aerospace industry has ruined the my hobby of amateur piloting. I am not a pilot but I'm sure I can find some tie which will point out that the aerospace industry has caused some other hobbiest group an inconvenience.
I have bought up the issue of how I heard and used HD radio right here in the Tampa-New Port Richey area, you remember that you wrote you have family here in Tampa not too far back if you recall?
One of the engineers here has the Sangean HDT-1 radio and we went through all the testing at his desk, so YEAH they are not baseless opinions or does a person have to physically own a lemon to say it's a lemon?
That is one of my tasks as an engineer to tell the industry where it must go otherwise we'd have plenty of Columbia Shuttle explosions or planes falling out of the sky, so if you know in your industry and plenty of RF engineers with combined totals of centuries of experience are complaining that HD is defective at least in certain parameters of it's operating system they should be heard after all they are the EXPERTS in their field.
DX'g is just a hobby for me and not even one I'm good at, I do it for fun and for what's happening in other parts of the country, not that I'd care if HD is going to ruin the AM band or not, but if I'm listening to a local station in my area and HD is ruining that station YOU BET I'm going to have a say about it.
You think that the aerospace industry didn't have a say in your radio industry, try looking at all the strobes and warning lights on antenna structures, did you complain about those?
You must be talking about the frequencies for aircraft use... well blame the FCC for that, can't comment on the Ham operators, their hobby and why they can't use certain areas of the band but that's something we can't hash here.
I too worked in a college radio station for 4 years and then it ended when I graduated, tried to get a job in radio and I could have made radio career but the reality of making a couple of hundred bucks a week wasn't in my favor so I opted for the real world of engineering instead of what I loved: radio.
Now 25 years later I run a small station and very happy at doing it, maybe it's not a major market like you are in but the love and feeling is the same, only I don't have to struggle each morning for the drudgery of traffic to get to some office building fighting people through elevators to get to my little corner of the world for 8-10 hours, I just get up when I want flick the switch and on comes the screen while I'm in my slippers sipping hot brewed coffee and chatting with my wife about life and how well it is.
Since I run my aerospace consulting company out of my home there is no need to go anywhere except when needed, when I get the next consulting contract (wherever, whenever that might be) then it's off for some fun too, for now I leave for New Port Richey on Mondays and return Thursdays to my home... that's the way it is.
Radiopilot
