Frustrated North of Boston

15 miles west of Boston:

I have the Sangean HDT-!X and the table radio. Table rado is on it's own antenna mono-pole.
The Tuner is on a full size yagi tv antenna.

I can pull in virtually every FM station with HD using the tuner, except the Amesbury U Mass station.
With the table radio I get good HD on almost all. The Worcester one fades in and out.

For AM I get WBZ with table radio. Have not even tired the loop antenna on the tuner yet.
No usable reception on the other 4 AM stations even in AM.

Sounds like you need either a different antenna, or a different radio.

If you're just north of Boston I'd bring the radio into Boston Acoustics. I have a good Receptor, but there are bad ones out there. Are you using the dipole of a roof antenna? From 15 miles out you should hav no problem with either AM or FM. You should at least use the loop for AM. The internal antenna on the receptor is worthless. As an example, I also have a Sangean HDT-1 & a HDT-1X and both have no problem receiving the HD1 & 2 streams from a station which is 60 miles from my location.

I'm in Everett (very close to Boston, but a lot of Boston broadcasts are from the hills around the city), and I have a HD-100. It is a lousy sounding radio with apparently a great tuner. I use a coax lead from roof and get 30+ stations when you include the secondary stations. I got about 3/4's of this count with the built in antenna. The only reason I switched to the roof antenna was to try to get WCRB. I did not know at the time they were having technical difficulties (they still have no HD as of Sunday).

I'm always reading about dropouts on these forums and I have not experienced them!
If this radio had a 'line-out' I would talk everyone into getting one.
Mike Cocorochio

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Looks like WCRB is back on the air in HD.
Bad news is that it is just a shadow of the former station. They are mostly a Pops station now with very few multi-movement works.
I wrote to them the same time you contacted them and the programmer said this is a trend around the country. There are few listeners for a full time Classical radio station.

My opinion is that a great number of their listeners are probably dead since it is generally an older crowd; and younger people do not have the attention span for this type of music.

Anyway, my WCRB reception if very good. I wish I could move the 'receiver guts' of the HD100 to something that sounds good.

Mike Cocorochio

Thanks, I'll check them out tonight. I agree the programming has deteriorated.

Sounds like KKMJ in Austin, the HD signal only goes about maybe 20 miles out, I emailed the station, they tell me something completly diffrent then what I told them, so I dont know if that will ever get fixed.