Re: [IRCA] recorded the iboc

["Bill Harms" <wharms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott, on the other hand, I clearly heard an annoying sound under 
WTWP/WTOP on my car radio (in a 2004 Dodge Stratus). I spoke with 
other people who also heard it on their car radios.  My kids told me 
to turn it off because it was so annoying.  We concluded it sounded a 
bit like the 17-year old cicadas that came old a couple of years ago. 
It is my understanding it had to do with bandwidth issues and 
asymmetry involved with directional antennas.  That is a serious 
issue for certain stations, something that is not easily dismissed.

Bill Harms
Elkridge, Maryland

On 19 Feb 2007 at 1:21, Scott Fybush wrote:

> Again, none of this should be construed as an endorsement of AM IBOC,
> about which I'm still skeptical - just a plea that if DXers want our
> concerns about the technology to be taken seriously in the larger
> engineering community, we have to be realistic about our concerns.
> This recording, while an accurate reflection of what the A100 sounds
> like when tuned to an IBOC signal, is NOT representative of what the
> average analog listener will hear. If it were, there's not an AM
> station anywhere that would be running the system in the first place. 


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