Re: [IRCA] The sky is not falling, and the hobby's far from dead

[Brett Saylor <bds2@xxxxxxx>]

Scott Fybush wrote:

> 
> Just because 
> 24-hour operation is now legally possible does NOT - I can't emphasize 
> this enough - does NOT mean that we'll suddenly go from the current 
> couple of hundred AMs with HD to thousands of AM HD stations, overnight, 
> or probably ever.
> 


I know that this is still speculation, and that we'll see the results 
soon enough, but a quick glance at the IBOC station list on Barry 
McLarnon's site shows ~ 190 IBOC stations, enough to put the sideband 
noise on just about every frequency in the AM band somewhere in the US. 
 From firsthand listening experience with WOR, WBZ and others' nighttime 
IBOC, that's enough to pretty much blanket a good chunk of the country 
for 500-1000 miles from the source. It may not take thousands of 
stations to essentially eliminate DXability of many frequencies. The 
only hope is that many of them will be at reduced power for nighttime 
ops, and that many may delay their nighttime usage ... we'll know soon 
enough.



Brett Saylor
Central PA




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