Re: [IRCA] SE FL IBOC Status

["W. Curt Deegan" <WWWR@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Everything you say may be true, but I don't think it addresses the point 
I was making. 

Just a slight reduction in antenna gain resulted in a substantial 
reduction in digital signal strength while producing little affect on 
the analog signal.  Maybe some day when digital takes over the full 
power of the existing carrier, the signal will propagate as far as 
analog, at a listenable level.  But it just doesn't look like that is 
what is happening now with the hybrid signals.

But my point was to relate the results of the scans I had made.  I'll 
leave the range receivers can reach, to those who have them and can 
independently evaluate in actual circumstances, which is what it is 
really all about, not statistics and projections.

Curt

W. Curt Deegan
Boca Raton, (Southeast) Florida


David Gleason wrote:

>The issue is not the reach of the analog vs. the digital signal. Analog
>signals are hearable with very weak signal strengths. However, listeners do
>no use such signals due to the noise and interference. In most cases, in
>markets like the Miami MSA, AMs get no listenrship of consequence outside
>the 10 to 12 mv/m countours. In other words, there is a lesser signal
>available in some areas, but essentially "nobody" listens there. 
>
>On the other hand, the HD signal appears, on the few receivers out so far,
>to be "usable" at least as far as the usable analog signal is, and in some
>cases, farther. 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>On Behalf Of W. Curt Deegan
>Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 4:50 PM
>To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
>Subject: Re: [IRCA] SE FL IBOC Status
>
>
>It would seem the digital sidebands drop off much more rapidly, even for 
>stations 10 to 15 miles distant, than does the analog signal.  That 
>rapid loss of signal would not seem to support the notion the digital 
>signal is going to get out better than the analog.
>
>  
>
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