Re: [IRCA] More available spectrum when TV goes digital.

[Mike McKenna <way2twohot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Digital is NOT like AM or FM.  It gets "Stuck" in the middle of a transmission and misses bits and pices that can NOT be "processed" from analog into digital.  Have you ever watched TV and it sort of looks like its jerky.   AM sould stay im AM.   The daytimers should be pushed up to FM Fulltime channels and  IF digital works --- fine.  But I listen to LAPD in digital.  The audio is sometimes like "underwater".  The speach is not converted fast enough from analog into digital  -- and lost.    Back around 1978 or so -- i got to use a 800 mhz radio system and the very first "cellphones" in the LA area.   CLEAN -- CLEAR -- Signal that you could hear a PIN drop in the background.    Today -- its NOICE  or No signal.  It just drops out.   Digital only allows a SMALLER bandwith -- giving MORE radio channels in a smaller space.   DING DONG !!!   That's why the FCC is pushing Digital.  More channels in the same space.   It is not a BETTER signal -- it just gives more room.  

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