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A beautiful start. Here's to many more happy 'returns'.
Hey, Stroobey - 'This is your inevitable analog future - get used to it'.
Make no mistake, call letters mark the signifigance.
Might be good time to call station & express appreciation.
Wonderful when worm at last turns, isn't it?
=Z.=
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manjubilant Key, FL
BT
"Ibiquito Delenda Est."
- Caesar Analogus Maximus
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- Subject: [BC] WCBS dumps IBOC, returns to "High Definition" AM
- From: Kevin Tekel <amstereoexp@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:09:06 -0700 (PDT)
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After less than a week of transmitting the IBOC buzz, NYC's 880 WCBS has returned to "High Definition" analog AM with crisp, clear 10 kHz audio. A possible reason for this may be the numerous complaints they received due to the 8-1/2 second delay the IBOC exciter added to their audio, which made their Yankees play-by-play out of synch for people listening at the game or while watching it on TV. I first noticed the IBOC hash generator was off during a Yankees game today, but now during normal "Newsradio" programming it is still off, and their audio sounds a lot better too. When they had the IBOC on, their analog audio was still pretty crisp (they had it in 8 kHz bandwidth mode) but it had a strange kind of clipping distortion which made the announcers sound like they were holding their nose while they spoke, and for an all-news format that can get rather annoying. There was also some rather obvious slack in the AGC; when jumping from one programming element to the next, the audio would often start out very quiet and gradually ramp up in level. With their old processing (Optimod 9100?) now back in service, there is still a little gain-riding in these instances but it is a lot smoother and all of that nasty distortion is gone. And of course on a wideband receiver there is no mistaking that beautiful full-bandwidth audio! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ This is the BROADCAST mailing list To send to the list, email: broadcast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx For sub changes, archives and info on this other lists: http://www.radiolists.net/
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