NPR Sheds Light on HD Radio Coverage

For every radio station that signs on with a new IBOC digital hybrid signal, you can pretty well bet there's at least one person who's likely to spend a lot of time behind the wheel of a vehicle with an HD Radio, driving criss-cross patterns across the market in an effort to empirically determine how well the digital signal matches up with the pre-existing analog coverage. Until now, that person would almost certainly have been an engineer. But with HD Radio products beginning to find their way to consumers and station owners looking for a return on their ...

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