Re: [IRCA] SE FL IBOC Status

[Milspec390@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 11/10/2005 9:59:38 PM Pacific Standard Time, bubba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

>
> "At night, digital coverage fell short of the predicted nighttime
> interference-free (NIF) contours and the system had blended to analog
before
> reaching this contour."
>
> In other words, the system totally gave up on trying to use the IBOC
digital
> signal and reverted to analog before reaching the NIF contour.
>
> Any way you slice that, the digital signal was worse than poor and could
not
> be used at all. The analog (by virtue of being inside the NIF zone) would
be
> commercially - usable audio.

The WHJJ-920 day IBOC signal doesn't cover the whole Providence market
either.  If my experience, and that of the other engineer I've spoken with

This, among many other reasons, is why broadcasters are calling for the FCC to immediately suspend IBOC HD broadcasts and reconsider the NRSC-5 standard. As many broadcasters note with ironic consternation, were they to emit destructive interference in analolg that HD does, they would be cited, fined, and possibly removed from the air.

 

  Undersigned useless utopian is not by any means a DX'er. As with many others, I love radio and rely on it. I will not stand idly by while a claque of monopolistic gelatinous thugs in mid-price suits jam their competitors to ruin so as to cheat the free market.

 

  The false tales told by HD's promoters and as well the actionable comments by which some of their minions portray as 'at odds with the government' any and all who dare question this scheme, well serve to illustrate the troubling mindset behind this scheme.

 

                                                                                             =Z.=

 

Paul Vincent Zecchino

Manaslandersuit Key, FL

BT

 

               "Avarice will be the downfall of our society."

                                                   - Michael Weiner,  nee 'Savage', ca. 2005 AUG

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