Was driving home to Brooklyn NY yesterday from
upstate NY and's decided, with my family taking a car snooze, to run an HD radio experiment. WCBS’ HD-2 signal is a simulcast of WCBS AM, and during the afternoon was airing a NY Mets spring training game. I wanted to see how soon I well I could tune in on HD.
So driving south on the Taconic State parkway I set my radio to 101.1 from the exit for NY Route 55. I got the regular signal very intermittently until the Dutchess/Putnam County line when it came in for good. From that point, I got a few pings sporadically of the HD signal, but it would not lock in on the HD1 signal until I reached Briarcliff Manor - a film 30 miles south. When I tuned over to the HD2, it would continue to drop in and out until I approached the exit for I-287 on the Sprain Brook Parkway - another 10 miles further south.
So in order to have a quality consistent HD radio listening experience, especially on the sub-channels one needs to be within 25-30 miles max of the transmitter, making the concept more difficult in a major market such as NYC with such spread out audiences. Curious to know how this works going east of Manhattan into Long Island. The Nassau County/Queens line is in between 15-20 miles east of Manhattan.
upstate NY and's decided, with my family taking a car snooze, to run an HD radio experiment. WCBS’ HD-2 signal is a simulcast of WCBS AM, and during the afternoon was airing a NY Mets spring training game. I wanted to see how soon I well I could tune in on HD.
So driving south on the Taconic State parkway I set my radio to 101.1 from the exit for NY Route 55. I got the regular signal very intermittently until the Dutchess/Putnam County line when it came in for good. From that point, I got a few pings sporadically of the HD signal, but it would not lock in on the HD1 signal until I reached Briarcliff Manor - a film 30 miles south. When I tuned over to the HD2, it would continue to drop in and out until I approached the exit for I-287 on the Sprain Brook Parkway - another 10 miles further south.
So in order to have a quality consistent HD radio listening experience, especially on the sub-channels one needs to be within 25-30 miles max of the transmitter, making the concept more difficult in a major market such as NYC with such spread out audiences. Curious to know how this works going east of Manhattan into Long Island. The Nassau County/Queens line is in between 15-20 miles east of Manhattan.
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