All this black helicopter stuff would be relevant if
anyone could prove that, about 10,000 days out of 10,001, thee is any
significant listening to any station, AM or FM, outside its primary contours. Not
protected, primary.
Arbitron, as well as many broadcasters, have done
studies and found that most listening happens inside very strong primary
contours. 80% of FM listening is in the 70 dbu curve. On AM, depending on
market, the figure may be as high as 25 mv/m to get significant listening, and
seldom below 10 mv/m.
Today, power is useful to overcome interference and to
penetrate buildings. It is not useful to cover outside an immediate market
area, as it has been seen that there is not significant listening no matter how
good the signal outside of a market. The exceptions are limited to a handful of
stations out of over 13 thousand.
No one expects HD to be an immediate success, given
the number of radios out there that don’t get HD. But those of us with HD
stations operating are very excited. We are interested in where the multi
channel FM capability will lead, and those who have heard the latest AM version
are excited about how this may help AM in the future.
Listeners do not tolerate bad signals to hear good
programming. They simply listen to something else. There is no evidence that
the contrary is true, as you suggest.
Stations have pretty uniformly decided that better
quality and multi channel options in the primary coverage area are worth more
than fringe coverage no one listens to. As several have mentioned, there are a
number of very tightly squeezed allocations, like 690/710 in LA and Socal,
which will be challenges to resolve. But in most cases, HD is a better answer
than doing nothing.
From:
irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Milspec390@xxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005
7:57 PM
To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IRCA] IBOC DX'ing
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