[IRCA] THE UNMENTIONABLE

[Pete Taylor <ptdx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's sad when the tenor of a discussion drives intelligent people  
away. My sentiments:
(1) There was an unresolved conflict between David's assertions on  
the usable range of IBOC and Craig's in-the-field results.  I'm sorry  
we didn't get input from Tom Ray of WOR but I guess he's only on the  
NRC list.
(2) I'm not a techie, but it is strange that usable IBOC signal is  
limited whereas the first adjacent hiss gets out for hundreds of  
miles. (I suppose this is analogous to not being able to get stereo  
on a distant FM station).
(3) None of us knows if IBOC will fly. IBOC or not, the programming  
on stations remains the same. iPods have been successful simply  
because we like to be able to access our favorites 24/7. We don't buy  
iPods for their frequency response - when you're riding a bike or  
working out you aren't too concerned about crispness - and most of us  
don't listen on anything where we could hear the difference anyway (I  
mean who among us really sits down on a couch and just sits there  
listening to the stereo on good speakers?). Satellite music was phase  
one -  our kind of music without the commercials - and with iPods, we  
get rid of both the commercials and the songs we don't care for. On  
AM, who cares if Rush sounds better? The words remain the same. I  
have not read anything on the usability of IBOC on FM (multipath,  
usable distance, etc.) Bottomlining it, I think we are a curious  
group and I think before the insults started, it was informative. I  
am sorry it degraded. I do have to say though that like Betamax and  
AM stereo, the success of IBOC is up to the public and not DXers.

Pete Taylor
Tacoma, WA
ICF2010 + Kiwa air core loop





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