[IRCA] $200 receivers with little blue LED lights

[Charles A Taylor <MWDXer@xxxxxxx>]

At 10:42 PM 9/21/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>Charles A Taylor wrote in his weekly harangue:
> > I've been following the experiences of those who had $200 to burn and who
> > bought some of the enemy's equipment, and are developing a sub-hobby of
> > "Let's see if we can make the little blue LED light up, and hear
> > crystal-clear audio from one of these IBOC stations."
> > Seems like they will have a nice little piece of junk costing $200 and fit
> > to be given to Goodwill, or to the charity of their choice, or tossed into
> > the gaping maw of a low-tech trashcan.
> > I would have better use for $200, that's a dead-certain fact!
>=============================================================================
>Depends what you intend to do with the radio if and when HD AM fades
>away. The Sangean HDT-1 for which I paid about $120 is a damn fine
>analog FM tuner in its own right, accomplishing through digital signal
>processing (DSP) what used to take filter replacement and other
>modifications to accomplish. My only gripe with it in that mode is that
>it's overwhelmed a bit too easily by the mammoth amounts of RF coming
>from the tower farm next door.
>
>That same DSP, incidentally, allows the Sangean to do a much better job
>of pulling analog signals through digital hash than most of the other
>radios I've tried.
>s
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Scott and Krew,

Excuse please my sarcastic outburst. I was forgetting that the IBOC tuners
that were the object of my wrath are also FM tuners. That throws a new
light on it, so to speak, hi.

I understand that IBOC-FM occupies more bandwidth than a non-IBOC emission.
That makes sense, as there is more data (music and whatever else) on the
carrier.

QUESTION: has this wider bandwidth been a detriment to FM DX to the extent
that AM IBOC has been to AM DX?

I personally haven't DXed FM in a long time, but I have a great "deep
fringe" antenna and a JVC tuner that. together, ought to be a great DX
inhaler.

Chaz





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