Terry, Could it be that your NPR station is weaker than the Christian station next to it? Most Walkmans and boom boxes have very lose front ends. What I mean by that is, that they don't reject multipath interference that well. So stronger stations almost always blead over in to the weaker ones. For example, here In Colorado Springs, Colorado where I live, I work for an NPR station that for all intense and purposes has a weaker signal than stations around it. Our power output is only 2300 watts off the top of Cheyenne mountain. That's just west of Colorado Springs, and it's where all the FM TV and other UHF VHF communications transmitters are located. And of course a radioor tuner with a loosefront end will pick up all that interference coming off the mountain. I have a walkman, it's a Sony, one of their sportsman models. TheA.M. isn't too bad for a radio that small. But the FM has a local distance switch, and it's tuned with a nob. But in order to get KRCC in most sections of town, I have to use the local setting. If I use the distance setting on F.M. I can't even find the signal. So in order to get KRCC, I have to have a real good radio like the CC radio by C Crane or the GE super radio 3. My ICF 2010 by Sony will get it. And my tuner on my stereo will get it. So what I'd do is to test out the boom boxes before you buy one, and make sure it will receive the station you want to listen too. If I can help you any further, please let me know. Take care, Kevin
On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 02:23:43 +1100 Dane Trethowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ah! well I think from your message you're referring to selectivity > of the tuner > when you talk about stations bleeding. > > Well... (speaking of the Panasonic RX-ED50 which I mentioned in my > post), I can > tell you that you won't! get this problem, that Sony Boom-Box you're > referring > to sounds a very cheap and nasty product to me if its doing that. > > The difference between digital tuning and analog? Well... digital > tuning is far > more accurate that is to say, if you wish to tune to a frequency of > 1080KHZ, > then that's exactly what the set or tuner is tuned to with no drift > etc. > > Digital tuned radios have had a problem of not being very sensitive > though this > is changing now with better designs, better sheelding etc. > > An analog radio is tuned by a knob whereas digital tuned radios are > tuned with > buttons. To go back to the Panasonic set I have, to tune in a > station, you use > the up/down tuning buttons, these go up/down in 9KHZ steps (that's > the standard > frequency step for all Medium-Wave radio receivers outside the > U.S.). When you > hold down either up or down, the set goes into "SEEK" mode (that is, > the set > looks for a strong signal and locks onto it). > > Once you've tuned a signal, you can assign the frequency to a memory > or preset, > the Panasonic boom-box I have has 24 presets and they can be > recalled by either > turning a dial (which clicks) on the top of the unit or by typing in > the preset > number on the remote control keypad. > > Hope this answers some of your questions. > > At 02:08 AM 11/7/2004, you wrote: > Hello everyone, > First of all, I'd like to say thank you for your thoughts so far, on > this > situation. > Now I have a couple more questions. > If I purchase a different boombox, than the Sony I bought, is it > likely that > I'll run into the same problem I have with this one? > I want to be able to pick up NPR without getting that Christian > station > bleeding in. Like I said, I never had this problem with my analog > boombox. > Also, how exactly does digital tuning work? And how is it different > from > analog tuning? > > I was able to find two boomboxes on the Circuit City website, that > use > analog tuning. However, they are made by brands that I'm not > familiar with. > I don't want to buy one of them, to just have to replace it a few > months > later, because it wasn't that good. > One was made by Nexxtech. > And I believe the other one was made by ESA, but I'm not sure if I'm > remembering that exactly right or not. > Has anyone ever heard of either of these brands? If so, do you know > how > good their stuff is, or isn't? > Thank you, > Terri > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP 8.1 > Comment: A Member Of The TFT BBS Digital Security Initiative > > iQA/AwUBQYzsfSlBPqY64aUBEQIl8ACgpOnyU7QIwSWmnWMmg5QtWXFyycQAmwYB > GUeHA8/p6eBCh5GzgyONOXcZ > =tuYH > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
