Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Re: DRM vs IBOC

["Joseph Miller" <jmiller5363@xxxxxxxxxx>]

FWIW, I agree with both Chuck and Dave. For FM signals, the capture effect
will only demodulate the strongest signal on a particular frequency. You may
have to orient your antenna to tune in the strongest signal though.


73/Joe

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 10:05 AM
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Re: DRM vs IBOC


--- Chuck Hutton <charlesh3@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Nothing could be farther from the truth. AM is immensely worse, and
> whoever
> told you that should be placed in the category of "unreliable
> witness".
> 
> 
>

Chuck is correct.

Decent-to-strong tropo and/or E-skip on FM will usually p[enetrate the
FM IBOC hash here, and most of the Philadelphia FM's are about 7-10
miles from me. 

On AM, I can't hear a formerly-regular daytimer at all on first
adjacent, and I suspect the result would be the same if the distance
were only 50 miles.

Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
AM: Hammarlund HQ-150 & 4' FET air core loop

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