Re: [IRCA] Tempe, AZ to Oakland, CA IBOC spectrum wrecker

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

kevin redding wrote:
> On Apr 9, 2007, at 2:07 AM, Marty Rimpau wrote:
>> Hi all, it looks like it's definite, just moments ago, I turned off my
>> g e radio super 2 on 1580, and there was an open carrier, and on the
>> 1570 side, I did hear iboc hash, so it looks as though k m i k has
>> gone, or is testing their iboc.
> 
> Ok Guys,
> 
> This just goes to show you how far IBOC destruction will travel. This  
> is for all you NAY SAYERS who say that IBOC won't travel that far....
> 
> Marty, who wrote the above lives in Oakland and he heard KMIK with  
> their IBOC spectrum wrecker from Tempe, AZ at 653 miles away.
> 
> This is for all of you who told me that I didn't hear hash from WOR  
> and WLW on the first day of testing.

My experience from when I lived in eastern California is that Tempe (it 
was still KNIX back then) puts a pretty reliable analog signal up that 
way at night, so there's no reason to expect that its IBOC carriers 
wouldn't go that far, too.

I'd be very interested in knowing how much analog signal Marty gets at 
night from KLIV 1590 San Jose, and whether KMIK's sidebands cause it any 
interference to that signal.

This is all experimental at this point, especially for the broadcasters 
trying it, and it's safe to say that nobody knows for sure just how much 
damage night IBOC will cause in the real world. (I agree with the "let 
the chips fall where they may" approach - but I fear there won't be 
enough broadcasters lighting up at night to offer a full demonstration 
of how bad it might get.)

And I reiterate my hope that, for the good of the DX hobby, we can all 
refrain from getting personal about any of this. It's not worth the ill 
will it engenders.

s
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