Re: [IRCA] Another perspective on AM IBOC, from the broadcasters' mailing list

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Barry McLarnon <bdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sorry you feel that way, but neither you nor any of the other 'glass
> is half 
> full' folks have given me any solid reasons to feel optimistic.  It's
> all 
> just wishin' and hopin'... meanwhile, I'll continue to state the
> facts as I 
> see them.
> 


*** I certainly don't put myself in that category normally, but I
really do see reasons to be optimistic long term:

1) As Scott stated, the push for more AM IBOC seems to have abated with
the energy focused on FM

2) Most of the listening public doesn't care enough about AM to spend
the bucks needed for an HD radio

3) Of those who do, likely less than half will be able to hear what
they expect to

4) Nighttime IBOC will inevitably create such a mass of interference
that it will tip the scales to the point where what's obvious to us
will ultimately become obvious to the industry, namely that AM IBOC is
unworkable both because ot the construct and because the laws of
physics are immutable.

So my expectation is that things will be a mess for a period of time -
how long I couldn't guess right now - and then we will almost certainly
start to see attrition in the ranks of those running IBOC on AM.





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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