{"id":32761,"date":"2018-06-10T09:14:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T13:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=32761"},"modified":"2018-06-10T09:14:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T13:14:48","slug":"hospitals-and-rf-noise-fm-and-hd-radios-strong-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/hospitals-and-rf-noise-fm-and-hd-radios-strong-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospitals and RF noise: FM and HD radio’s strong suit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Sangean HDR-14 AM\/FM HD radio<\/p><\/div>\n

For the past week, I’ve been away from home spending time with my mother at the hospital while she recovers from a surgery. I’ve got a number of reviews and evaluations in the pipeline, but thankfully no shortwave or HF radios on the table this week (although the ELAD FDM-S3<\/a> and CommRadio CTX-10<\/a> are just around the corner). Listening to shortwave (or even mediumwave) in a hospital room can be an exercise in futility–there are just too many devices emitting noise and the buildings are built like bunkers with incredibly thick walls to attenuate signals.<\/p>\n

I’ve had the little Sangean HDR-14<\/a> with me, however, and have been very pleased with its ability to snag FM stations both analog and digital. I’ve also had fun discovering a surprisingly diverse FM landscape in this metro area. I haven’t snagged an AM HD station yet, but my hope is one evening I might DX one (fingers crossed and not holding my breath).<\/p>\n

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The Sangean HDR-14 (left) and CC Skywave SSB (right)<\/p><\/div>\n

At the end of most days, I’ve been able to catch a little shortwave action with my CC Skywave SSB<\/a> (pre-production) portable at the guest house where I’m staying. The evenings have been surprisingly peaceful here with only the occasional popup thunderstorm to insert a little QRN in my listening sessions.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Last night, while listening to jazz on FM, I finished reading All The Light We Cannot See<\/em> by Anthony Doerr (affiliate link)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We’ve mentioned this book before<\/a> and I know of at least dozen\u00a0SWLing Post<\/em> contributors and friends who’ve personally recommended it to me.<\/p>\n

It is a superb<\/em><\/strong> novel and will, no doubt, tug at the heart strings of any radio enthusiast or WWII history buff. Highly recommended!<\/p>\n

Indeed, last night I couldn’t fall asleep until I finished the book around 12:30 AM!<\/p>\n

And mom? She’s recovering quite well and we hope will be discharged from the hospital soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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I’ve got a number of reviews and evaluations in the pipeline, but thankfully no shortwave or HF radios on the table this week (although the ELAD FDM-S3 and CommRadio CTX-10 are just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,251,56,3781,836,3,26],"tags":[6643,4090,6398,6397,1584,2477,7107,6648,34],"class_list":["post-32761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-books","category-broadcasters","category-fm","category-new-products","category-news","category-radios","tag-all-the-light-we-cannot-see","tag-books","tag-c-crane-cc-skywave-ssb","tag-cc-skywave-ssb","tag-fm","tag-hd-radio","tag-hospitals","tag-sangean-hdr-14","tag-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8wp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33225,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/mikes-review-of-the-sangean-hdr-14-am-fm-hd-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":32761,"position":0},"title":"Mike’s review of the Sangean HDR-14 AM\/FM HD Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"July 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mike S, who comments with his short review of the Sangean HDR-14. 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