[IRCA] different receivers vs. IBOC: now AM vs FM

[Charles A Taylor <MWDXer@xxxxxxx>]

At 10:42 PM 9/21/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>Charles A Taylor wrote:
> > I've been following the experiences of those who had $200 to burn and who
> > bought some of the enemy's equipment, and are developing a sub-hobby of
> > "Let's see if we can make the little blue LED light up, and hear
> > crystal-clear audio from one of these IBOC stations."
> > Seems like they will have a nice little piece of junk costing $200 and fit
> > to be given to Goodwill, or to the charity of their choice, or tossed into
> > the gaping maw of a low-tech trashcan.
> > I would have better use for $200, that's a dead-certain fact!
>
>Depends what you intend to do with the radio if and when HD AM fades
>away. The Sangean HDT-1 for which I paid about $120 is a damn fine
>analog FM tuner in its own right, accomplishing through digital signal
>processing (DSP) what used to take filter replacement and other
>modifications to accomplish. My only gripe with it in that mode is that
>it's overwhelmed a bit too easily by the mammoth amounts of RF coming
>from the tower farm next door.
>
>That same DSP, incidentally, allows the Sangean to do a much better job
>of pulling analog signals through digital hash than most of the other
>radios I've tried.

Scott,

Once again I got too emotional over the whole thing. I'm totally forgetting
that the IBOC scheme also is being used on VHF-FM broadcast.

Up there, the picture is drastically different, and as someone observed,
IBOC-FM probably WILL become the standard. So I ought not to jump on the
$200 "junk" receiver.

The FM receivers, well I know little of them and to my discredit, too.
But I don't DX on FM BCB right now. I should change that because I have
a "deep fringe" FM/TV antenna and an excellent FM tuner.

The antenna is so The Boss can watch 'rasslin' off-air.

I DO half a cassette full of NC FM BCB DX. Maybe I can get up to FM and
see how IBOC is shaping up on FM.

My prediction is that IBOC AM will die quickly. iBiquity will probably
turn profitable from its FM operation.

Charles 


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