Any experience with an HD radio? Any problems?!

Any experience with an HD radio? Any problems?

Will it pull in stations better than standard radio?
65 miles from LA

Skipping the first two questions, HD Radio receivers will pull in stations "better" if you're talking about local listening under good conditions. Speaking generally, the tuners and antennas in most HD Radio receivers currently on the market aren't better/more selective/stronger than standard analog receivers, but if it can acquire the digital signal then it won't have the sort of interference you can get with analog AM/FM.

However, if you on the fringe of the coverage area for a given station, then you'll probably find HD Radio to be of little difference from analog. Analog signals carry further than digital ones -- the digital signal becomes too diffuse and the receiver can't reassemble the digital bits to create the audio -- so in fringe areas you'll get only the analog signal along with whatever interference it's always had. Or, worse, you'll get enough of the digital signal to force your receiver to keep switching back and forth between the digital and analog signals.

Also, if you're hoping to get better AM coverage, the rules are still being set for running HD Radio at night on AM, so right now HD Radio doesn't help tune in baseball games late at night, for example.