Re: [IRCA] IBOC

["Joe Miller, KJ8O" <ab8yp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Around here in the Metro Detroit area, WWJ has been
plugging it for nearly a year now. Granted, 99% of
their listeners couldn't tell you anything about it,
but at least many have heard OF it.

Just my observation, for what it's worth...


LXXIII de Joe, KJ8O


--- Neil Kazaross <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have to state that I don't know a single person
> outside of the hobby 
> except those who are in electronics or broadcasting
> who is even aware that 
> there is HD on AM !(except for my family members who
> I have told)
> 
> I also don't even know a single person outside of
> the business or hobby who 
> had purchase a HD radio, even though some are aware
> HD is available on 
> FM...ie they just don't care.
> 
> 73 KAZ
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Russ Edmunds" <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club
> of America" 
> <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 4:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] IBOC
> 
> 
> >
> > --- Lee Reynolds <kd1sq@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >> It doesn't matter whether or not the public want
> it provided that the
> >>
> >> FCC can be induced to do an end run around public
> wants and needs by
> >>
> >> unilaterally declaring that analog AM and FM will
> be phased out by a
> >>
> >> certain date. If that's done, IBOC is here to
> stay. And thus will the
> >>
> >> terrestrial equivalents of Sirius and XM come
> into existence.
> >
> >>
> >> Shutting down free-to-air AM and FM within a
> certain time frame is a
> >>
> >> tricky gamble for IBOC proponents - the timing is
> particularly
> >> critical because they need the current
> corporate-friendly,
> >> listener-unfriendly FCC in place - but if they
> manage it then there's
> >>
> >> a pot of money to be made for corporate
> interests.
> >
> >
> >
> > *** If that occurs, consider AM dead as a
> doornail. AM audience is
> > dwindling daily as those of us old enough to know
> what it is and listen
> > to it die. AM has no relevance to most people
> under 40. I cannot
> > believe any significant number of people would
> purchase AM HD radios.
> >
> > For FM, it is useful to remember that this isn't
> like TV where some of
> > the space is being sold off to other services -
> services which people
> > use and want. Based on many things I've read, most
> people under 40
> > would also sacrifice their FM radios for other
> media if that occurred.
> >
> > Either is a golden gift to satellite radio,
> streaming audio, iPods and
> > the like. I really believe such a mandate has the
> potential to kill off
> > both AM and FM terrestrial radio - the one will
> die much fster than the
> > other...
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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