Re: [IRCA] Here it Comes....FCC To Release IBOC Rules Next Week

["Neil Kazaross" <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My low end here is also trashed beyond recognition days and presunset. My 
phased BOG setups are so good that I can with the proper wires copy Montreal 
690 pre IBOC(yes thru MI and paste WI) and Winnepeg 990(phase Chi 1000 and 
aim NW) daytimes to give you an idea of my setup here and what I have lost 
(not to mention WABC and WOR all day from Wisconsin's Lake Mich frontage 
buried in Chi's IBOC)

Pardon what may be perceived as my arrogance, but any of you here unless you 
live right by either ocean and can use serious antennas to null stateside 
stuff and only care about foreign stations you will have no more AM  DX 
hobby if nite IBOC is wide spread. Analog and IBOC cannot coexist on AM.

Time to wake up and smell the roses before they wilt for ever. I live near 
Chicago and KOA's (Denver !!) IBOC til 7 PM Central time ruins 860 and 840 
for sunset skip etc etc etc as a non trivial example and this is inspite of 
a non IBOC local on 850 which I can get past if KOA is not IBOCing.

73 KAZ who will hopefully nab KMTI's DX test in 26 hours as one of his last 
achievements in this hobby unless he leaves the US when he soon retires, 
which will happen at least part time.

Pardon my arrogance once again, but my Wisconsin setup and QTH are clearly 
the best anyone has in the Central US but the hobby will end here for me and 
I will sell the estate where we had last summer's Milw/Madison GTG, the next 
time real estate prices boom once again and raise money for something along 
southeast coastal Newfoundland where I will hopefully spend several months 
a year when I retire.

Hopefully not my last 73..KAZ..Barrington IL, Grafton WI

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kevin redding" <big_h00pla@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 
<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Here it Comes....FCC To Release IBOC Rules Next Week


> 550 KFYI, 620 KTAR and 860 KMVP all IBAC.
>
> From 530 to 650 in the days, its unDXable.
>
> You already know how hard it is to try to DX in the desert. IBAC is
> not  helping at all.
>
> If they want digital, switch 100% of them today. Do it now and face
> the music, FCC.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Mar 17, 2007, at 7:00 PM, Patrick Martin wrote:
>
>> Kevin,
>>
>> 860 Phoenix is IBOC too? I thought the only AMer in your market
>> running
>> IBOC was 550. So far 1190 and 1330 Portland are running it and 850 in
>> Tacoma.
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>> Patrick Martin
>> KAVT Reception Manager
>>

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