The NAB Best Paper Award at the 2025 NAB Show was presented to independent consultant Alan Jurison and Xperi’s Jeff Baird and Mike Raide for their paper, “Digital-Only Boosters for HD Radio Single Frequency Networks.”
Alan Jurison and Xperi’s Mike Raide accept the 2025 NAB BEIT Conference Proceedings Best Paper Award from NAB SVP Lynn Claudy.
The award was announced at the Opening Session of the NAB Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology (BEIT) Conference on Saturday, April 5, 2025. The paper was presented on Saturday, April 5 at 11:15 a.m. in Room W220-W221 in the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
The Abstract from the paper is shown below:
“While analog FM and hybrid HD Radio boosters in Single Frequency Networks (SFNs) have been widely studied, deployed, and discussed, this paper will explore experimental observations of the first fielded high-power IBOC digital-only booster using off-the-shelf Gen4 HD Radio™ hardware. What makes this different from existing installations is that the booster transmits a digital-only MP1 signal with no host analog FM component. Topics include potential applications, appropriate timing of implementations, and impact on analog and digital signal performance in the field.”
The NAB Best Paper Award, established in 2010 and judged by the NAB Technology department, honors the author(s) of a paper of exceptional merit published in the NAB Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology Conference Proceedings. Previous winners of the Best Paper Award can be found here.
The 2025 NAB BEIT Conference Proceedings (including 49 technical papers from the 2025 NAB BEIT Conference) are now available for attendees and for general purchase.