{"id":33264,"date":"2018-07-25T06:49:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T10:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=33264"},"modified":"2018-07-25T06:49:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T10:49:31","slug":"bill-tunes-to-wwfd-in-am-hd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/bill-tunes-to-wwfd-in-am-hd\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill tunes to WWFD in AM HD"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Bill Mead, who writes:<\/p>\n

Thomas, I’m sending you a short clip from WWFD 820 kHz in Frederick, MD. It’s America’s only all-digital station, apparently. They are HD only with a relatively eclectic music format. I’m hearing them at my QTH in Harrisburg, PA, about 80 miles or so north of their transmitter which is 4.3 Kw daytime. I sort of doubt they’ll come in at night when they drop down to 430 watts, but who knows.<\/p>\n

My experience with HD on MW is that it can be heard at pretty decent distances under ideal conditions but the slightest bit of interference, a lightning strike or someone switching on the lights for example, and it’ll lose the HD lock.<\/p>\n

My HD receiver is a Sony XDR-F1HD. It’s well-known as an excellent FM DX machine. What’s not as well-publicized is that it’s a very decent MW receiver as well. All it needs is a good MW loop antenna directly connected to the AM ANT terminals on the back of the radio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n