Re: [IRCA] Random thoughts on IBOC

["Stewart, Joseph R" <RandyStewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Patrick Martin wrote: I understand where you are coming from, but you
are not an avid foreign DXer with the IBOC hash laying squarely on the
split frequencies. You are right, complaining is not going to help.
However, you have to understand how upset the DXer is. Show a bit of
compassion and
understanding. 

Well, I can tell you right now that MOST, in fact, nearly ALL, of the
frequencies on which I have been able to regularly hear Trans-Atlantic
signals, up to and including this past summer, have been blown to hell
by HD hash: 684; 1134; 1206; 1215.  All are pretty much trashed... since
the IBOC-running stations causing the QRM on these frequencies (WLW on
700, KMOX on 1120, and WOAI on 1200) are all on a northeast-southwest
line from here... same as the European stations.  Thus, impossible to
null.  Now, those four frequencies (plus occasional Spain on 585)--and
my lack of multiple antennas and/or phasing capability--may not exactly
make me a full-time "foreign DXer," certainly not like guys on either
Coast, or Neil Kazaross in Illinois/Wisconsin with his BOGs etc.  But it
still puts a crimp in my style, if you know what I'm sayin'.  And the
Citadel ban on nighttime IBOC useage doesn't affect any of the above,
unfortunately for me.  

Randy Stewart
Springfield MO 

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