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WQXR IBOC / HD Gear for Sale

davideduardo

davideduardo

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I was not sure whether to post this in the tech section or under New York City... but I decided that it shows the current attitude towards AM HD radio!

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It is on eBay for $699 "or best offer". My best offer would be appropriate for the 99 Cent store.
 
That's a Nautel Exporter Plus. Those can do either AM or FM HD. That unit is one generation back from the current Nautel HDMC+ combo Importer / Exporter and was probably used on WQXR-FM. The Exporter Plus started to show up around maybe 2011 and 1560 had been WQEW for many years before.

These units are generally getting replaced with the HDMC+ or the GatesAir FMXi 4G, which both run on the newer HD Radio software architecture. The Exporter Plus units are getting long in the tooth and a number of the ones I took care of started to see hardware aging issues, plus the companion Importer Plus units ran on either Windows XP or 7, and didn't have the stability and feature set in the newer HD software.

Back when hybrid AM HD was more of a thing most of the stations were running Harris DexStar HD encoders.
 
Engineer said:
That's a Nautel Exporter Plus. Those can do either AM or FM HD. T
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I assumed it was for the AM due to the label. Anywhere I have been where there were both an AM and FM with the same calls, the FM gear was very prominently labled "FM". And, usually, the AM was also identified by "AM" but not always.
 
davideduardo said:
I assumed it was for the AM due to the label. Anywhere I have been where there were both an AM and FM with the same calls, the FM gear was very prominently labled "FM". And, usually, the AM was also identified by "AM" but not always.
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This equipment is early 21st century vintage. By the time it would have been purchased, there hadn't been a WQXR AM in over a decade.

(Come to think of it, since WQXR AM went away in 1993/94, it could never have been IBOC.)
 
fybush said:
This equipment is early 21st century vintage. By the time it would have been purchased, there hadn't been a WQXR AM in over a decade.

(Come to think of it, since WQXR AM went away in 1993/94, it could never have been IBOC.)
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Maybe one of the engineers had the "it will always be WQXR to me" sentiment?
 
davideduardo said:
I was not sure whether to post this in the tech section or under New York City... but I decided that it shows the current attitude towards AM HD radio!

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It is on eBay for $699 "or best offer". My best offer would be appropriate for the 99 Cent store.
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Another quotable oxymoron: AM HD radio. Anyone remember AM Stereo was going to save the band?
 
DrAkbar said:
Another quotable oxymoron: AM HD radio. Anyone remember AM Stereo was going to save the band?
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Phoenix AM stereo: One transmitter in Tolleson and the other in Guadalupe.
 


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