Is WILM running HD now? Next question is WHY? I hope one of the HD channels will feature The Best Of Burke Hulley!
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According to the info on their site, WILM is indeed running HD (which may help explain the really bad audio when they moved to their new digs). For those of us without HD radios, it just makes the audio worse, it is not a help.
I hadn't noticed the problem during the Delaware This Morning broadcasts. Today, I tuned in to Watson's show for a few minutes (the first time in many months) and his voice is so bassy and muddy a few minutes of that and it was time to move on.
I can't say about WILM, but every HD AM I've heard has so much artifacting and "chorus effect", that I can't decide which sounds worse,
the HD decoded result, or the muffled, hissy analog. ibiquity did seem to make an improvement for less hiss to all the AM 50kw iBOCs here in Chicago last august, but it's still made em all sound about like a transoceanic phone call in the 1970's.
It really doesn't matter how good or bad AM sounds with HD.
The important thing is to throw them sidebands on the two adjacents on both sides.
We've GOT to do something to kill out of market listening, right?
Too bad they can't keep the sidebands out of their own face with this system.
Engineers used to have to fix real bad parasitic oscillations like this.
Now it 's a "mode" of operation
I'd have loved to hear what any of my instructors would have said about such a bandwidth pig if it had been proposed back
in the 70's and 80's.
Of course, we had to respect the rules and regulations of radio back then in design AND operation.
Now we have computer people with no such respect for the vagaries of RF.
Most of them wouldn't know an inductor if they tripped over one.
the HD decoded result, or the muffled, hissy analog. ibiquity did seem to make an improvement for less hiss to all the AM 50kw iBOCs here in Chicago last august, but it's still made em all sound about like a transoceanic phone call in the 1970's.
It really doesn't matter how good or bad AM sounds with HD.
The important thing is to throw them sidebands on the two adjacents on both sides.
We've GOT to do something to kill out of market listening, right?
Too bad they can't keep the sidebands out of their own face with this system.
Engineers used to have to fix real bad parasitic oscillations like this.
Now it 's a "mode" of operation I'd have loved to hear what any of my instructors would have said about such a bandwidth pig if it had been proposed back
in the 70's and 80's.
Of course, we had to respect the rules and regulations of radio back then in design AND operation.
Now we have computer people with no such respect for the vagaries of RF.
Most of them wouldn't know an inductor if they tripped over one.
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