Re: [IRCA] Dump AM IBOC, Move the AM Band, re:HDTV comment

["Tim Kridel" <tkridel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sure they will, but there are at least two reasons why the deadline won't
get postponed again: Congress and taxpayers want the auction revenue from
when that spectrum is refarmed, and Congress has already set aside a couple
billion to subsidize converters.


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Subject: Re: [IRCA] Dump AM IBOC, Move the AM Band, re:HDTV comment



--- Mike McKenna <way2twohot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As of April of 2009 -- any analog only TV set will be worthless.  All 
> anslog TV broadcasting will end by that date.  Congress MAY give 
> coupons worth about half the cost -- of a analog to digital convertor
> -- but it will be based on income.  
> _______________________________________________
>


*** There will likely be a major outcry from the affected populace once they
finally become aware of what their elected representatives have done to
them....



Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA  ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20ID
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FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
AM: Hammarlund HQ-150 & 4' FET air core loop

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