For the HD RADIO FARCE, IBOCCROCK and other HD haters clubs
Jo Jo Gunn
"NPR Promotes HD Radio"
HD RadioTM
Digital radio features more programming choices and dramatically better
digital sound quality, and it's free. If your local station is broadcasting
in digital, all you need is an HD Radio receiver.
What is it? - Learn how HD Radio broadcasting is writing the future of
digital radio technology
How to listen - New technology doesn't have to be hard - let us walk you
through your own digital radio transition
FAQ - Questions? We've got answers. Check here for all your HD Radio
questions
So how does HD Radio technology sound?
Try our HD Radio Simulation to experience the quality difference HD Radio
technology offers
HD Radio Farce
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"Warp Factor 6, Mr. Scott"
"To wit, how many existing installations will have sufficient
headroom
to implement the increase without significant retooling of
transmission hardware?.. Some simply won't make it with their
existing
transmitters, and plant cooling capacity will also have to be bumped
up along with electrical power mains service, and back-up generating
plant output... Those using high level combining schemes will face
similar issues, as reject loads, digital transmitters, etc., will all
have to be upsized... One thing's for certain: approval of a 6dB HD
digital boost will mean lots of extra hours, as managers and owners
task their engineers with delivering a wee bit more digital drive
without melting down already overheated corporate budgets. For many,
actually making it happen is likely to be an agonizing process."
Few stations outside of NPR will/can do it. A survey of the 700 NPR
stations, only 186 responded, and only 70% will up the power. This is
out of reach for most commercial stations. Even iBiquity stated that
the -6db won't help much, and even a -10db will improve little. This
still has not been approved by the fraudsters at the FCC, and Media
Access Project just submitted under Docket 99-325 that the NPR/
iBiquity studies did not factor in the affects on LPFMs. If this goes
through, expect a class-action suit by non-HD broadcasters.
Jo Jo Gunn
"HD Radio Farce" <hdradi...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:ef707ffe-f622-4db1...@r5g2000yqb.googlegroups.com...
On Nov 6, 1:29?am, "Jo Jo Gunn" <vhr74a...@sneakemail.com> wrote:
> "NPR Promotes HD Radio"
>
> HD RadioTM
> Digital radio features more programming choices and dramatically better
> digital sound quality, and it's free. If your local station is
> broadcasting
> in digital, all you need is an HD Radio receiver.
>
> What is it? - Learn how HD Radio broadcasting is writing the future of
> digital radio technology
>
> How to listen - New technology doesn't have to be hard - let us walk you
> through your own digital radio transition
>
> FAQ - Questions? We've got answers. Check here for all your HD Radio
> questions
>
> So how does HD Radio technology sound?
> Try our HD Radio Simulation to experience the quality difference HD Radio
> technology offers
>
> http://www.npr.org/everywhere/digital/
>
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> "Warp Factor 6, Mr. Scott"
In a development that could vastly improve HD Radio signal reception
and propel the digital radio service forward, an agreement has been
reached for an HD power increase. It would give all HD FMs a
four-fold power hike, but most stations could get an even BIGGER bump.