User talk:Milonica/Archive 9

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Digital Broadcasting Technologies

Hi Milonica. I'm someone from Egypt & I'm interested to know about digital broadcasting technologies. I saw comments of yours at talk:CAM-D. I read on your page that you are in WikiProject Radio, so as you are interested in DXing. I read a lot about digital radio broadcasting technologies (HD Radio - FMeXtra - CAM-D ... & others), but wanted to take a word of a mouth. I wanted to ask you:

1. Does the regular person (in America) know about digital radio broadcasting?
2. Does the general public seem to care about these technologies?
3. Are digital radio broadcasting technologies used widely?
4. Do you find digital radio broadcasting more robust?
5. Could they be received further than analog?
6. Do these technologies really sound better in quality?
7. Do you care to use any of these technologies?
8. What technology do you prefer from all of digital radio broadcasting technologies?

We have no terrestrial digital radio broadcasting in Egypt, so I was wondering how does it look like. Thanks in advance :) --Mahmudmasri (talk) 04:41, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Answer

To answer your questions:

• 1)Hard to say, most people probably hear the ads for HD Radio but it doesn't seem like people know much about it.
• 2)HD Radio hasn't seen very much adoption by consumers. People just don't seem to care that they can hear new stations.
• 3)On FM yes, AM (Mediumwave) not so much. There are over 1400 FM stations in the US broadcasting HD Radio.
• 4)No, HD Radio has many flaws and suffers from poor range compared to its analog counterpart. The audio benefits are negligible on FM, but noticeable on AM.
• 5)No, as I said above, HD Radio suffers from poorer range, and where the analog can't be received, the HD signal can't be received.
• 6)As I've mentioned, the audio quality on FM is really hard to notice a difference. On AM, HD Radio sounds close to FM, but depending on the station, the audio sounds compressed, and has digital artifacts. FM suffers from the same thing when the station has more than one stream (i.e. HD2, 3 etc).
• 7) I do have an HD Radio, and the only thing I can say is it does make identifying DX stations a lot easier, but the benefits don't outweigh the reason to have an HD Radio in the first place. There just isn't much new content to really care.
• 8) I've only heard DRM and HD Radio and between the two, I like how DRM sounds. AM Stereo (if it hadn't have died) would have helped AM here in the states a great bit. HD Radio just doesn't make sense on AM, but FM its "just okay," nothing spectacular. I prefer analog in the long run.

If there is a way, I would encourage you to tell the Egypt government not to accept HD Radio (Ibiquity) should they choose to select a digital system. I'd let them know to go with DRM or the better equivalent. Hope this helps! --milonica (talk) 08:19, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you so much, Milonica. Your reply couldn't be more helpful :) I also suspected the bizarre propagandist claims that digital radio is supposed to achieve. It doesn't seem sane that 100 kbps (even in AAC+) would do better than the analog stereo FM. It should be not less than 192 kbps to really feel persuaded to migrate to digital. Not to mention the poorer range.

Most probably if a digital radio broadcasting system would be used in Egypt, it would not be in the near future & would be the same as used in Europe, because that site [1] claims that Egypt is planning to use DVB/T the same system used in Europe, so I suppose that if digital radio would be used in the far future in Egypt, the European standard would be used. Just as 625 lines was (SECAM, then migrating to PAL in 1992) chosen as the standard for analog TV, as in Europe. --Mahmudmasri (talk) 08:47, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

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Hmm...

Hello, What are you exactly talking about ? :D Nima1024 (talk) 20:07, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

The edits to the radio stations using AWB. They popped up on my watch list because I had just created those articles earlier.--milonica (talk) 20:10, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Aha, that's nice, have fun ;) Nima1024 (talk) 20:12, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

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Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, Milonica/Archive 9! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 04:14, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Welcome to the project, --Kumioko (talk) 04:38, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Glad to help! --milonica (talk) 04:39, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Please provide input

Your recently provided input at Talk:WAPS_(FM)#Requested_move. I have requested a similar move for article WNIR (FM). Please provide input at Talk:WNIR_(FM)#Requested_move. Blcklght8 (talk) 19:17, 5 January 2011 (UTC)