Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] Re: [NRC-AM] WBT IBOC test

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Barry,
> 
> Now with the info filed, 30 days from now the fun begins.  When KGO
> started testing IBOC at night, there were tons of complaints from
> listeners hearing all of that "hiss" as they called it. So maybe, the
> "average Joe & Jane" listener will flood the phonelines with
> complaints
> to the stations. That will hold a lot more weight than just a DXer
> calling up. First off, there are not enough of us, and the FCC could
> care less if we cannot hear some station several hundred miles away.
> I
> think anything can be stopped if there is enough complaining.


*** Remember nothing prevents DX'ers from calling up as if we were
average listeners -- in fact that's preferable given the comments above
and prior discussion on this point recently.

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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