on October 20, 2023, 10:01 pm, in reply to "Re: Anyone notice how the Chicago FM HD Digital sub channel signals are disappearing."
AM HD is and always has been a technological failure. It takes impressively little signal to detect the HD sidebands, but a seriously strong signal to actually lock the data and decode audio. Those 2 stations I mentioned will quite easily start flashing “HD” on the display but only one time ever did the skywave bring in AM 810 strong enough to show “WGY” on the display, and cough up some bits of full-quieting audio. The only stations that ever truly sounded good to me in AM HD were 1120 KMOX St. Louis (they had an evening Oldies show) and all-news 1060 KYW Philadelphia. 1690 WVON probably sounded the best of all the crappy-sounding over-compressed AM HDs in the entire Chicagoland area. All of those stations have nixed HD. It’s fine because I’d much rather listen to moderate to strong AM stations on a receiver where I can pry open the bandwidth above 4 or 6 kHz.
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