Re: [IRCA] SE FL IBOC Status

["David Gleason" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The issue is not the reach of the analog vs. the digital signal. Analog
signals are hearable with very weak signal strengths. However, listeners do
no use such signals due to the noise and interference. In most cases, in
markets like the Miami MSA, AMs get no listenrship of consequence outside
the 10 to 12 mv/m countours. In other words, there is a lesser signal
available in some areas, but essentially "nobody" listens there. 

On the other hand, the HD signal appears, on the few receivers out so far,
to be "usable" at least as far as the usable analog signal is, and in some
cases, farther. 

-----Original Message-----
From: irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of W. Curt Deegan
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 4:50 PM
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
Subject: Re: [IRCA] SE FL IBOC Status


It would seem the digital sidebands drop off much more rapidly, even for 
stations 10 to 15 miles distant, than does the analog signal.  That 
rapid loss of signal would not seem to support the notion the digital 
signal is going to get out better than the analog.



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