Rene -
IBOC hucksters talk incessantly of IBOC benefits. Hi fidelity, traffic texting, cures psoriasis. They never mention the "I" - interference -word.
Were IBOC/HD a neutral improvement, it's no one would be concerned. Color TV signals don't wreck Black and White reception, nor do they render B&W tv's worthless. FM stereo comes thru on a mono set quite well. Improvements were always backward compatible.
Along came Bob "we didn't have much money growing up" Struble and his IBOC contraption. Backward compatible? This klunk is backward destructive. Perhaps by design.
IBOC shills can't tell the truth. We've no right to listen beyond contours? Sez who? If monopoly casters weren't so obsessed with Wall Street and aired compelling programming we might even listen to them. They ignore content, augmenting one dull format per channel with several. "Inevitable third adjacent noise blooms' are intended to jam competitors into oblivion. Philosophy: "Buy HD radios or hear silence." This isn't about DX'ers. Oleagenous fecalithic greaseballs care not one whit for their audience. If they did they'd hire talent.
IBOC cheats the free market. Team Struble - not a radio man among them - used 90's biz tricks to circumvent market. IBOC requires stations revamp grounds, antennas, everything. Long after consumers - purposely kept in the dark - discover and reject HD, the kluge will be left running by stations ashamed to admit error. Know this: IBOC thugs absolutely want this stinkbomb running at night. It's how they'll drive people into buying HD radios.
Consumer 'demand' for HD will be coerced, not created. Jamming 60 KHz of previously clean spectrum for each station means: go HD or go without.
Say you own a convenience store. Either side of you are three other convenience stores. Do you upgrade products, advertise more, open longer hours, to better serve customers?
Why not use IBOC tactics? Splatter tar on storefronts to right and left of you. Block public view of and access to competing shops with 'inevitable tar blooms', to paraphrase HD engineer with a reflexive animadversion to the truth responsible for that vomitose excuse.
Listeners gladly tolerate signal defects to hear compelling programming. L.A.'s Joan Huntington, acting coach excelsior expressed as did Boston actor Dave Fitzgerald; "people may not know why it sounds and looks good, but they know it'. Doot-loaded CD players intercut with voice tracking saves monopoly-casters money yet endures not. Food sustains. Cooking odors don't. Grease splats eventually are scraped into the sewer.
Analog receivers sound great, models ancient, new, portable, tabletop and mobile. Neo-Nineties narcissists would have us believe only HD radio sounds good? Spare us. Please.
"Frequency extravagant schemes" are what military calls kluges like IBOC/HD. Idea is to push more info thru less, not more, spectrum. This is the best Team Struble can do?
Does Robert 'the stance' expect us to believe his genii can't add 'traffic texting' without wrecking 60 KHz of formerly good RF spectrum?
It's as if Henry Ford declared the only way start his cars was first to kill all horses. This is about DX'ers? This is about takeover.
We marginalize ourselves to the delight of spectrum wastrels who spin IBOC onto an unsuspecting public.
This isn't a hobby during disasters. Last thing anyone needs is to be denied vital programs at critical times due to noise from Struble's Stinkbomb. 1991, racing home to RI, ahead of Hurricane Bob. Left NY state early. West of Middletown CT tuned RI stations for weather and road info. Home safely ahead of storm. Was this DX'ing? Yes. Relevant? No.
Radio is where we go 'when something happens'. When travelling aboard ship, by car, or at home, DX'ing is irrelevant when you want information. Are we DX'ng when hearing vital info from a station 'beyond countour'? See how these easily these humbugs are exposed? Perfumed parlor poltroons from media congloms claim the contrary, saying DX'ing is a thing of the past, cheating the debate. Why cosign their bullshale?
Radio gets thru when nothing else does.
For fun, grab an IBOC flak, wind him up, let him spew. Like a trout hooked, at the opportune moment, ask him "What about interference?". Watch him squirm, dodge, feint, mumble, deny, deflect, whirl, toot, clang, prevaricate, feign indignation, moralistically intone you've no right - No Right, Little Man! - to hear 'out of contour stations'. He'll do as do all crooks, namely anything but give a straight answer.
As ever,
=Z.=
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasoviet Key, FL
BT
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