[BC] Re: HD Receiver flaws

[WFIFeng@aol.com]

In a message dated 02/19/2007 08:23:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
cadkins at voicecorps.org writes:

> Wait a minute, please explain something to me someone. I have never looked
>  at an HD radio. Do you need an external antena to use one?

Unless you're getting *very* strong signals from stations within unobstructed 
line-of-sight, only a few miles (at most) away, you are going to need some 
kind of enhanced antenna. By enhanced, I mean more than a dangle-wire or simple 
dipole thumbtacked to the wall.

> If the answer is
>  yes, someone was smoking crack when they recomended IBOC.

Shhhh! You're not supposed to let that secret out! ;)

> Who is going to
>  purchase and erect any type of antena for there clock radio?????

That's the whole point... it's being discussed sarcastically, because there 
aren't too many people who would actually do that. I'm a radio geek, and even 
*I* wouldn't run antenna leads to a measly clock radio! I'd just use the 
beeper, or find a stronger station.

>  Say it
>  isn't so, tell me our industry isn't that stupid.

Well... someone, somewhere, apparently is. <:(

>  If that is so and I owned
>  a radio station, I would sell it before that fact was known by too many
>  people. If your going to get an antena just to effectively use a clock
>  radio, you might as well go satellite!!

No, don't sell the station... just don't bother wasting the money on the IBUZ 
gear. If your TX plant needs an upgrade, upgrade. IBUZ, alone, isn't a 
reasable reason to make that investment. IMHO.

>  But, maybe I miss-understood something!!!

Nope, I think you picked up on it quite nicely.

It started-off as a bathtub that they wanted to make fly. What with so many 
severely faulty receivers and even moreso now, faulty secondary programming 
sources, they're filling that bathtub with cement... and yet they're still trying 
to get the thing airborn? Another member of this Forum is selling used 
bridges. Cheap.

Willie...