Re: [IRCA] How local IS WBZ?

["Powell E. Way III W4OPW" <w4opw@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- CHARLES HUTTON <charlesh3@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Patrick -
> 
> There are a lot of DX'ers that have received DRM SW
> broadcasts from other 
> continents, yielding a nice-sounding signal.


This is true...BUT you have to have to have a very
strong signal and absolutely no interference from
other stations at all. Otherwise silence. A lot of
folks like the audio but are FAR from impressed with
it's fragility. 


>IBOC is a close cousin of DRM, 
> so I expect IBOC DXing will be quite possible.


It's more fragile. It might decode if you have steady
very strong QRM free signals. 


> When WLW and WOR did their nighttime IBOC tests,
> there was reception of 
> nighttime IBOC over hundreds of miles.

Yes I could hear the hiss. There were NO commercial
receivers available at the time. 


>And of course the extensive studies 
> available on the NAB site show significant IBOC
> coverage somewhat slanted to 
> make IBOC look good, but nonetheless still covering
> a lot of territory with  respect to analog.


I don't trust ANYTHING the NAB does after the CD they
put out with FAKED interference in opposition to LPFM.


 
> Craig's IBOC reception sure is poor. I really don't
> know how much of that is 
> attributable to the radio, his local environment,
> the stations's IBOC 
> implementation, or the base characteristics of IBOC.
> It's really too soon to 
> tell.

> Chuck


More than one radio. Other engineers have had the same
results. 


Powell



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