[BC] In The Sticks with the Receptor Radio

[Robert Orban]

My BA is connected to my outdoor TV antenna. I'm about 25 miles from the 
various San Francisco TX sites, give or take. I get solid HD reception on 
virtually every HD-FM station on-air in San Francisco or San Jose. However, 
HD-AM is a problem. Without the external loop supplied with the radio, I 
can't get KCBS in HD, and with the loop, the front end gets overloaded by 
transmitters at 1550 and 680, about 4 miles from my house. I believe that 
Rob Meuser observed the same thing, although in the New York area.

My BA is one of the earlier ones. I've heard rumors that the second batch 
was not as good, but I don't know if anyone has actually demonstrated good 
evidence for this. However, for $500, they should have done better in the 
RF department.

Bob Orban

At 10:00 PM 2/21/2006, you wrote:
>From: "Mike Erickson" <wirelessmedia at gmail.com>
>Subject: [BC] In The Sticks with the Receptor Radio
>To: "Broadcast Net" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
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>I want to get this on an outside antenna, and will over the weekend, but
>have a few comments about indoor use.
>1) The supplied antenna hardware is garbage
>2) When hooked up to a semi-decent antenna, it performs well for an ANALOG
>tuner
>3) It has a hard time recovering HD.  You basically have to swamp the front
>end to get it to go to digital and STAY digital.
>4) This really needs a good outdoor antenna for any realistic and reliable
>HD coverage.  How many people (average people, not us) are going to do that
>anymore?  Most will want performance out of the supplied hardware.  The
>Sangean table radio and Tivoli radio perform OK with the supplied hardware,
>this does not.  It is quite deaf.
>
>Also, the AM was in totally muted at night and only open on strong
>stations.  A little better with the loop, this will also get an outdoor loop
>this weekend.
>
>=Mike Erickson=
>W1WHN