Re: [IRCA] WOR and IBOC

["Neil Kazaross" <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

HD radio's have AM antennas that are puny ? OMG..how stupid is that when one 
realizes that they HD power is less and that a decent signal level is needed 
for lock.

ROFL..is every one involved with the most unneeded HD AM technology and 
assumed business a moron or what ? One would think that HD radios would have 
good sized loopsticks inside ..ie like the old Radio Shack TRF 12-655 etc.

73 laughing KAZ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russ Edmunds" <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 
<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] WOR and IBOC


>
> --- Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Seem to me that if the NYC AM stations have trouble penitrating the
>> concrete buildings in Manhattan, is HD going to work any better? At
>> the
>> IRCA convention in SLC, the engineer at KSL could not get his AM
>> (1160)
>> in HD in the KSL complex in downtown, and the tower was 5-6 miles
>> away.
>>
>
>
> HD is currently running less power typcially than analog. All early
> indications have been that the HD radio antennas are puny, and
> therefore would work less well also, therefore right there two negative
> indications.
>
> Of course some of those people have to actually buy HD radios first,
> which they have no real need to do if they can now hear the analog, and
> which they'll probably return if they can't hear the analog now and
> expect to heard the digital.
>
>
>
> Russ Edmunds
> Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
> [15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
> 40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20id
> <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
> FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
> AM: Hammarlund HQ-150 & 4' FET air core loop
>
>

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