Why night time AM HD radio is on hold.

[tomservo]

WCKY jumping to gun on nighttime IBOC?

It certainly is an interesting phenomenon the first few times you hear it - I didn't know what was going on with my car radio when I drove the vast expanses of West Texas. Every few minutes, the cell phones went seeking for service they would never find.

Incidentally - I found one of those stretches of road with NO local radio service, AM or FM. The highway from Clayton to Raton in New Mexico. Seek on both bands cycles over and over again, doesn't stop on anything. I am sure the residents of Capulin, Des Moines, Grenville, and Mount Dora NM are eagerly awaiting nighttime AM HD radio - jamming their contact with the outside world. Oh wait - those poverty stricken folks can all buy $200 HD radios. Or they subscribe to satellite - or they have wideband internet. Or do they - I don't seem to remember seeing any satellite TV dishes on the shacks.

Dang, where were you that you lost service in W. Texas? I had a quad-band GSM phone through T-Mobile when I travelled through there and never lost service even when I was well off the interstate. Granted, I'd never heard of some of the carriers (and a few times I locked onto Mexican providers movistar and TELCEL - those were some expensive calls!) :

I have to wonder if those people in isolated areas like you describe just don't ever watch any TV or radio. I believe it was Van Horn, TX where I spent a night and there was only one religious translator strong enough to be stable. Everything else was from Carlsbad, NM, weak in the static, from 101 miles away. Not listenable.

Thank goodness for XM.

Last but not least - is WCKY in Cincy running IBOC at night regularly? It was on a few nights ago; the data carrier over 1540 was crystal clear. There was even a lot of noise on (normally decent) WLAC at 1510. I can only imagine what it was doing to poor little WKXG down the road in Greenwood, MS... Their whopping 2 watts of nighttime power on 1540 prolly didn't stand a chance against the evil IBOC.

(I once sat in the parking lot of the studio/transmitter site at night and was hearing co-channel noise that was clearly audible in the background. Aside from the projects surrounding the site, I can't imagine how anyone else in town could hear this weak signal: WKXG's nighttime coverage)

 

[TheRover]

I HATE AM-HD Radio ! ! ! !

I do not like it at all !! I have no use for talk radio or sports radio to be in HD on AM ! ! !

What I need is a receiver smart enough to program out all HD AM reception by default. I would then like to ba able to have the receiver remember to havd the HD on one the one and only AM station that I need HD on, that being a Classic Oldies station that plays standards from the last 60 years. That's it !!

I THINK AM HD for talk radio and sports radio SUCKS !

I do not like the sound of AM HD "Talk" radio. I find the transition to the AM HD signal disturbing. My JVC receiver allows to block HD reception for the station you are tuned to, but once you leave, it defaults back to HD on.

When I tune into AM talk radio, I am listening from the get-go, and I do not have the time or inclination to wait through the transition process to the $#@*$# AM HD sound !

This will all be fixed when receier makers get enough input from consumers about what serves them best.

I was listening to 1290 WTKS Savannah talk show - George Noory Coast to Coast and this station is exclusively listened to for decades on a very good signal, last night as I was taking a trip to Florida, the signal was garbled, almost un-intelligable and I had to change it to 1110 AM, little to my surprise they were testing the HD nighttime signal and wanted listeners to chime in with their HD radios and also the ones listening with analog radios. As soon as they turned off the HD signal 1290 WTKS came in exactly as it has for decades... what this proves in a nutshell is that IBOC HD transmissions causes interference and garbled garbage across the AM band.

Radiopilot

Radiopilot, you referenced my post.... but then spoke about IBOC HD interference.
My post was all about HD AM reception with talk /sports/news radio.
My post was not however, about IBOC HD interference with other AM channels.

Which is to say that my complaint in no way morphs into the beef you have with IBOC HD interference, now does it ??

 

[Tom_Ray]

Not on hold any more. September 14 is the date.

Tom Ray
WOR

 

[vsa]

Not on hold any more. September 14 is the date.

Tom Ray
WOR

FM broadcasters, satcasters, cablecasters and webcasters are looking forward to welcoming some new listeners beginning the night of 9/14 and thereafter.

 

[Chuck]

Not on hold any more. September 14 is the date.

Tom Ray
WOR

FM broadcasters, satcasters, cablecasters and webcasters are looking forward to welcoming some new listeners beginning the night of 9/14 and thereafter.

That's the way I look at it. I should be celebrating, since I run an FM with an Internet presence.