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Date: | Sun, 25 Aug 2013 14:51:22 -0400 |
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Hi, everyone.
The ongoing discussion regarding D Star, and audio quality reminded me of
something I recently experienced, and meant to bring up to the list.
As many of you may recall, the XYL and I recently purchased a new vehicle
that has an HD radio in it.
Well, thanks to the help of some on the list regarding how best to
understand and use the new HD capabilities while traveling, I believe I have
mastered the main functions of the radio pretty thoroughly now.
However, I have to say that digital A M leaves a tremendous amount to be
desired, in my opinion.
For example, while traveling through the Chicago metro area from Michigan on
our way to and from the St. Louis area several weeks ago, I tried listening
to WBBM AM 780 with the new digital radio, and the experience was actually
quite anoying. I'd say that as we got 30 miles or so on either side of
Chicago, the digital AM signal kept switching on and off, to be replaced by
a much degraded analog signal. Perhaps there is a way to turn the digital
AM reception mode off in this particular radio, but I have not found it yet.
We are going to be traveling through quite a few metropolitan areas on our
upcoming family visitation trip, so I'll have time to play with it a bit
more, but I really am wondering now about the usefulness of digital AM
radio.
Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
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