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are not directly upgradeable to transmit HD Radio. It is true that older transmitters may lack the transmission purity needed to support HD Radio's digital transmission standard, but more recent transmitters are more likely to be capable of upgrading to transmit HD Radio. CAM-D is said to work with
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and other digital radio services. Since they all require new circuitry, inevitably, the price of manufacture will increase. This price will likely begin to decrease once the technology becomes proven. Since all new broadcast radios are moving to full digital formats that decode with nearly identical
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CAM-D is a system that is applicable to medium wave and possibly shortwave transmission. Since receivers are designed for multiple bands, a receiver that requires a substantially different architecture for CAM-D will require special circuitry that will increase its cost. This is similar to
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Receivers that could decode CAM-D were not available to the public, and with Leonard Kahn's death, interest in CAM-D vanished and those stations using it turned it off, not seeing any financial return.
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in urban areas, lightning, switching transients, etc.). . However, in the field, HD Radio, at a distance from the transmitter, is still not immune to the aspects of the AM dial such as those below.
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due to radio frequency noise from man-made and natural sources, such as fluorescent lamps, motors, switches and lightning. Simply adding high frequency information does not produce
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a wider variety of existing transmitters, which is a selling point for smaller broadcasters with limited budgets. The price of the CAM-D hardware is $ 65,600 as of July 1, 2007.
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Special CAM-D receivers provide the benefit of better frequency response and a slow auxiliary data channel for display of station ID, programming titles, etc.
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pulled night broadcasts of their AM HD station's signals. CAM-D does not produce interference on any channels 10 kHz or more from the center frequency.
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that under adequate analog signal conditions may allow AM stations to transmit music and other program content with a more lifelike sound.
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CAM-D is said to add high-frequency program information digitally transmitted and then overlaid onto the existing low- to mid-frequency
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KCI (Kahn Communications, Inc., the company that invented CAM-D) uses as one of its main selling points that some older
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signals on AM, however, use more bandwidth signal wise and often create "hash" on surrounding frequencies, up to 30
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from the center frequency. This interference, which is audible mainly on analog radios, was one of the reasons
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A substantial problem of analog AM transmission is that it is subject to poor
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Technical aspects and differences with other digital radio methods
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Citadel Asks AM Stations To Suspend Nighttime HD Broadcasts
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RBR Magazine reports on Leonard Kahn's death June, 2012
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information that AM normally lacks is then transmitted
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Leonard R. Kahn
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IBOC
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HD Radio

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