HD Radio receivers and HD-n (n>1) subchannels

[Jim Hall]

I don't use the alarm feature on the Sony. When I first got it, I set it to
wake me up with WMJX-HD2 without the buzzer alarm (just the radio). Darn it
if WMJX wasn't having trouble with HD the next morning, and I woke
up...late...to "not available" on the display. It did not default to the
analog signal on the alarm: it tried to connect to the HD-2 that wasn't on
the air and just displayed the message when it couldn't connect.


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Laurence [mailto:marklaurence@mac.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:02 AM
To: Jim Hall
Cc: 'Boston Radio Interest'
Subject: Re: HD Radio receivers and HD-n (n>1) subchannels


On Feb 19, 2009, at 9:08 AM, Jim Hall wrote:

> On my Sony XDR-S3HD there are no pushbuttons for HD:  you tune to the
> frequency and wait a second. If the radio detects HD, the display will
> change to From WXXX to WXXX-1, then you turn the main tuning knob  
> one click
> to the right for the HD-2, another click for the HD-3 (and the  
> display will
> change to WXXX-2 and WXXX-3).


That's the way it works on my Directed HD radio also.  One odd  
behavior on this radio: no matter what HD station I'm listening to  
when I go to sleep, the clock radio goes on with the analog station.   
So if I went to sleep listening to Irish music on WTKK-HD2, I'd wake  
up to Imus on WTKK-FM.  If I go to sleep listening to full-fidelity  
WBZ-HD, I wake up to low-fi WBZ-AM.  I have to turn the radio off and  
on again to get the HD to work.