Re: [IRCA] Dave Gleason's comments

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

Truthfulness and one individual's remarks aside, Lee, the issue is that 
not everyone thinks in terms of just DXing.  What has been discussed 
here lately is simple reception.  I *listen* to radio too, and it seems 
to me there is a basic problem with how much choice a listener will have 
if they can only hear stations 10 or 15 miles away, and 2/3rds of the AM 
channels blocked by digital noise.

I think you are too quick to accept the finality of the situation.  
There are other ways for the business of AM radio to prosper besides 
just IBOC.  I think many here are as adamant about saving the local AM 
broadcaster as they are the DXing opportunity.

It isn't DXers against the real world, it is the real world against 
IBOC, and in preference of something less damaging..

Curt

W. Curt Deegan
Boca Raton, (Southeast) Florida


Lee Reynolds wrote:

>IBOC - what Dave has to say about IBOC is truthful and relevant if you make the
>effort to remember that he speaks from the viewpoint of a person who is
>interested in market share, enhanced *local* markets coverage and so forth.
>Radio is a business, people, we'd do well to remember and acknowledge that
>fact. CC and others gotta pay the bills too.
>
>It *is* unfortunate from our hobbyist viewpoint that IBOC doesn't lend itelf
>well to the hobby, but we'll get used to it. (Myself, I just wish iBiquity's
>death-grip on the code were loosened enough that they'd permit people to
>produce PC-based decoders a la DRM! That'd be nice to play with.)
>
>For the truly hardcore, I can forsee a time when people will run analyses on
>IBOC signals at the bit level and see if they can ID a station (that can't be
>received well enough for audio) that way!
>
>               Lee
>
>  
>
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