[BC] Digital Intgerference

[Robert Orban]

At 06:57 PM 12/18/2005, you wrote:
>From: Rich Wood <richwood at pobox.com>
>Subject: Re: [BC] Digital Intgerference (was AM Interference)
>To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
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>------ At 10:46 AM 12/18/2005, Robert Meuser wrote: -------
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> >WPLJ is on and it is (was) equally as cruched as the
> >analog.    Funny thing, I am hearing a lot of tweaking lately, HD
> >processing changes, playing with diversity delay and other stuff.
> >This morning WPLJ HD was slightly less painfull than the main channel.
> >The problem is either you make things blend well and HD sounds like
> >analog OR you make it different and the blending becomes a distraction.
>
>Thank you. That's the point I've been trying to make. Those without
>receivers find it difficult to grasp how annoying the mode switching
>can be. It ads loss of HD (silence), then allows multipath to return.
>I was forced to force the stations into digital. The auto switching
>mode made any multipath pale by comparison. Your radio is stationary.
>Listen to one in a moving car. It's enough to cause the clergy to
>have road rage. Mother Theresa would turn into an angry mother.

My Boston Acoustics never mutes as long as I am on the main channel. The 
crossfades in either direction are smooth. Of course, the HD2 digital 
channel will mute if it loses signal because there is no analog backup.

Bob Orban