Re: HD RADIO is no worse than DAB or DRM radio

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From: Billy Burpelson
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:11

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Doug McDonald wrote:
> Jason wrote:
> 
>>
>> A ham buddy of mine who was a transmitter engineer at WLWO, the VOA 
>> station that shared the Mason site with WLW, built a high-tech crystal 
>> set (multiple tuned RF stages) to see how good AM could sound. It was 
>> remarkable.
>>
> 
> I once tried a simple single-tuned crystal AM radio connected directly
> to a guy wire of a 5 kW AM station, feeding a KEF 105 speaker. It sounded
> wonderful.
> 
> Doug McDonald

When I was restoring a ca. 1915 loose-coupler crystal set, I was 
actually startled by how good it sounded. No pesky IF or AF stages to 
add distortion or pass band limiting!

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