Re: [IRCA] The Nighttime IBOC Scorecard

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Brett Saylor <bsaylor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
that kids get their music from
> the
> Internet and listen to it on their iPods. Radio is irrelevant to the
> *vast*
> majority of them.

*** And there's no reason to expect them to go back, espcially while
those other technologies  continue to develop.


> 
> It's been said here many times, it's not the quality of the sound
> that's
> going to drive listenership, it's the content. FM-like quality on AM
> does
> not equate to more AM listeners.

*** And digital won't doesn't address that. In fact terrestrial
broadcasting doesn't.

> 
> 
> If broadcasters truly wanted to provide quality audio, the vehicle to
> do so
> has been available for decades. And now apparently they don't
> consider
> anyone more than 30 miles from their transmitter "relevant" to HD
> radio
> listening so the issue of overcoming the noise floor could have been
> dealt
> with in a similar manner (you live too far away, you don't count to
> us).
> What I think happened is they allowed themselves to be caught up in
> the
> "crappifying" of the medium, and are now grasping at technology to
> save
> them.
>

*** Amen.



Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
AM: Hammarlund HQ-150 & 4' FET air core loop


       
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