After brief experimentation with IBOC this spring, and a summer of AM-only, WGN returned last weekend to confuse-a-bit modulation.
I did send them my condolences.
If >they< can't get the dang sidebands to stay symmetric, I don't see how lesser stations will.
Keeping this from hissing with any normal detector is impossible, as received U/L sidebands vary continuously, especially while driving.
The only fix is enforced 2khz brickwalls in the receiver's AF section, abrasive for sure!
Let's all get out the Atwater Kent Model G horn speakers, so we can listen to the HD radio in full enhanced audio.
Get this data wagon off into a wavelength more suited to width of its a**, Pul-leeze.
Why not SIMULCAST the digital data template correction at a higher frequency, to layer INTO the existing AM and FM audio w/DSP?
As in 26 mhz, where I will be happy to bless an all-digital mode as "RADIO".
It could then be demodulated as the new HD directly, or used as correction/restoration/enhancement to existing analog service.
I'm always happy to add to the realm of radio for the people, and do not see it as a zero sum game as business does.
I hope other loyal WGN listeners will complain about the degraded service.
I did send them my condolences.
If >they< can't get the dang sidebands to stay symmetric, I don't see how lesser stations will.
Keeping this from hissing with any normal detector is impossible, as received U/L sidebands vary continuously, especially while driving.
The only fix is enforced 2khz brickwalls in the receiver's AF section, abrasive for sure!
Let's all get out the Atwater Kent Model G horn speakers, so we can listen to the HD radio in full enhanced audio.
Get this data wagon off into a wavelength more suited to width of its a**, Pul-leeze.
Why not SIMULCAST the digital data template correction at a higher frequency, to layer INTO the existing AM and FM audio w/DSP?
As in 26 mhz, where I will be happy to bless an all-digital mode as "RADIO".
It could then be demodulated as the new HD directly, or used as correction/restoration/enhancement to existing analog service.
I'm always happy to add to the realm of radio for the people, and do not see it as a zero sum game as business does.
I hope other loyal WGN listeners will complain about the degraded service.