Luckily my car has a button (Via the radio screen) to Disable HD radio,
On the station I listen to, the HD and Analog FM broadcast are about 1/4
second off. Where I live is on the edge of the HD coverage, and when it
kept switching between them it was infuriating. However, I still get
all the RBDS data from the Analog broadcast. Maybe because it only
needs a few packets of data to get the information?
On 1/1/2026 2:03 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:
I didn’t look it up so I don’t know for certain but I think they add
some low level subcarriers slightly out of band to add the digital
signal. With AM digital they phase shift the whole carrier. We have
a local FM station I like to listen to but when going in and out of
digital range there was a very significant change in the level of the
audio. I bitched to the station engineer for several years about
this. Digital was louder than all the other station too which reminds
me back when people started using audio compression on broadcast
radio. Mostly an AM rock thing. But I digress, to “help” this station
I even made a video from my car of my radio which has the HD light
come on when it starts using the digital content where you could hear
the loudness increase. He claimed he had a fancy test instrument to
test for this. Eventually they got it fixed.
*From:*AF [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Ken Hohhof
*Sent:* Thursday, January 1, 2026 10:32 AM
*To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] I found the Dr. Demento Christmas CD
I could never figure out why my car radio would stop showing the
artist and title when I drove out into more rural areas. Finally I
looked it up and found out that FM “HD Radio” means digital, and when
the signal gets weaker, the radio uses the analog signal which doesn’t
have the additional information. Not exactly what I thought HD
meant. Thanks, marketing people.
*From:*AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Bill Prince
*Sent:* Thursday, January 1, 2026 11:23 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] I found the Dr. Demento Christmas CD
I had a little battery-powered thing. Might have been Sylvania or
something.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 1/1/2026 9:14 AM, Chuck McCown wrote:
Car radios always to have a better receiver than tabletop models.
*From:*AF [mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Brough Turner -
netBlazr
*Sent:* Thursday, January 1, 2026 9:38 AM
*To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] I found the Dr. Demento Christmas CD
And the album is still available as a CD:
https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Christmas-Novelty-All-Time/dp/B00000348G
I grew up in Phildelphia, but WLS has a clear channel license (at
night) so after dark I could listen in. It helped that I was
using an excellent AM car radio from a 1950s Cadillac that I had
modified to run on house current.
Thanks,
Brough
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*From:*AF <[email protected]> on behalf of Bill Prince
<[email protected]>
*Sent:* Wednesday, December 31, 2025 9:06 PM
*To:* [email protected] <[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] I found the Dr. Demento Christmas CD
I used to listen to WLS (Chicago) from where we vacationed in
northern Minnesota back in the 60s. Art Roberts (this has been a
work of Art) came on around 10PM, and Dr. D. was around midnight.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 12/31/2025 12:42 PM, Chuck wrote:
Now they will be coming to take you away.
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 30, 2025, at 6:41 PM, Jan-GAMs
<[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]>
wrote:
there was a radio station in Gilroy, CA that played the
Dr. Dimento show. KFAT
On 12/24/25 14:48, Ken Hohhof wrote:
In case you can’t read the photo, the track listing is:
The Chipmunk Song (The Chipmunks)
All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (Spike
Jones)
Jingle Bells (singing dogs)
The Twelve Gifts Of Christmas (Allan Sherman)
I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas
Nuttin’ For Christmas
A Christmas Carol (Tom Lehrer)
Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas
Twelve Days Of Christmas
Green Christmas
I’m A Christmas Tree
I Saw Daddy Kissing Sants Claus
Santa Claus And His Old Lady (Cheech & Chong)
Christmas At Ground Zero (Weird Al Yankovic)
Christmas Dragnet
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