{"id":6608,"date":"2013-03-22T17:31:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T21:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?page_id=6608"},"modified":"2014-09-27T12:59:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T16:59:27","slug":"revitalize-am","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/revitalize-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Revitalize AM"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WDCD towers looking back toward the transmitter building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is a series of blog posts on the all digital HD radio tests performed by iBiquity.\u00a0 It is also a good study on how to revitalize the AM broadcast band with technical suggestions and programming ideas.<\/p>\n

Part I: Discusses the all digital HD radio test on WBCN<\/a>.\u00a0 One test on a favorable subject does not success make<\/p>\n

Part II: Discusses the history of AM broadcasting<\/a>, regulations and technical developments\/setbacks<\/p>\n

Part III: Discusses some solutions to the above problems<\/a> and notes that good programming and hard work is also necessary for success.<\/p>\n

Part IV: An example of a successful<\/a>, stand alone AM station in the Northeast.<\/p>\n

All digital AM IBOC is more trouble that it is worth, it excludes small operators that cannot afford the upgrades or licensing, it creates interference and degrades audio quality.<\/p>\n

There are better ideas including improved receiver technology, carrier frequency synchronization, wider daytime audio bandwidth and cutting away some dead wood.\u00a0 Other AM improvement posts:<\/p>\n

The AM receiver problem<\/a><\/p>\n

Digital Radio Mondiale, an alternative to HD Radio?<\/a><\/p>\n

AM Stereo Renaissance?<\/a><\/p>\n

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This is a series of blog posts on the all digital HD radio tests performed by iBiquity.\u00a0 It is also a good study on how to revitalize the AM broadcast band with technical suggestions and programming ideas. Part I: Discusses the all digital HD radio test on WBCN.\u00a0 One test on a favorable subject does … Continue reading Revitalize AM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6608","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6608"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8157,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6608\/revisions\/8157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}