[BC] Re: HD Receiver flaws

[Kent Winrich]

Sorry to interrupt your love fest here guys....

My BA does just fine receving HD2 stations from 35-40 miles away using
just the little wire that came with it. (Not even the T antenna)

I receive an HD2 from about 70 miles away in my car (Kenwood) from a
Class C.  I am able to get a class C3 (7.9kW at 176m HAAT) a good
40-45 miles away.  Though I have not listened to them that much as
they are not a format I listen to alot.  A Class B that I have
listened to, was also good for 45 miles.

OK carry on with your love fest.....



On 2/19/07, WFIFeng at aol.com <WFIFeng at aol.com> wrote:
> 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...
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