{"id":435,"date":"2012-01-06T12:41:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T20:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=435"},"modified":"2012-01-06T12:42:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T20:42:23","slug":"hd-radio-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"HD Radio Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m beginning to suspect my <a href=\"\/blog\/new\/?p=392\">prior<\/a> (and to some degree, current) experiences are a victim of the <a href=\"http:\/\/catb.org\/jargon\/html\/C\/connector-conspiracy.html\">Connector Conspiracy<\/a>. When I made a new antenna cable using parts salvaged from a defunct cell phone headset, I had much better luck receiving HD signals.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still not perfect; reception drops out every so often and stays that way until I reseat the antenna connector. This makes me suspect that JVC deliberately chose to use a somewhat nonstandard 3.5 mm connector, one that fails to mate well with anything but the connectors on their (overpriced) accessory kits.<\/p>\n<p>It is at least a partial fix, one that&#8217;s good enough to enable me to receive the BBC static-free on one of the digital channels of a KUOW. That will come in handy on the next big news day (forget about the Internet when a big story breaks; any streaming programming instantly becomes overloaded to the point of uselessness in my past experience).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m beginning to suspect my prior (and to some degree, current) experiences are a victim of the Connector Conspiracy. When I made a new antenna cable using parts salvaged from a defunct cell phone headset, I had much better luck receiving HD signals. It&#8217;s still not perfect; reception drops out every so often and stays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}