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

[Ron Bello]

There was a period (months long) last year when all Greater Media 
stations had drop out issues with their HD2 stations.
It was a STL issue which was resolved.


At 10:10 AM 2/19/2009, Jim Hall wrote:
>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.