Re: [IRCA] Wince-worthy IBOC praise article

["Powell E. Way III W4OPW" <w4opw@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well, Scott, from the article I read, I would NEVER
hire him at a station I owned due to factual errors.  

HD is not by any stretch of the imagination and never
stood for that. It's not CD qualityh or even NEAR CD
quality.  

AM HD at night erodes a lot of the local groundwave
coverage of stations. We already knew that in 2004. 
When I went out west, I drove through Nashville at
night twice. WLAC has *S E V E R E*  IBOC interference
from then WSAI, now WCKY.  There was only a fairly
narrow and small area on I-40 that WLAC was somewhat
noise free. Otherwise there was a VERY annoying hiss
in the background through the city limits. Just beyond
that WLAC became rapidly unpleasant to listen to and
then just unlistenable, and within primary ground
coverage. WLAC though normally super strong in
Silverstreet is badly hissed up. I've lost WBT at
night! Jerry Dowd at WBT is not very happy at all. 

As for FM, EVEN with an outside FM antenna on the
inside ( ask Kevin Redding about my set up ) I have a
hard time getting decoding. The 1% power level for
digital on FM is too low. The proposed going to 10%
will cover better with a major jump in interference. 

And I'm sorry to inform IRA, the rules of nature don't
bow to HD radio. There will be skywave, there ARE  NOT
any antennas that don't have skywave. You can't order
a K9 A400 solar conditioin just because you want to
run HD.

Yeah, wanna run HD full power? Fine! Cut off your
analog NOW and go all digital. 


Powell

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