Re: [IRCA] [!! SPAM] IBOC Revisited

["Marty Rimpau" <mrimpau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all, I've noticed, in the case of k g o, that they turn off their
iboc at various times, for example, the iboc wasn't on during Lin
Tillum's show, but they turned it on, and apparently, left it on until
the morning news at 5, and then turned the iboc back on at 9, where
Ronn Owens only did one hour of his show.  I wonder if they'll turn the
iboc off at 4 for the afternoon news, and turn it back on for the rest
of the day until the morning news.  You'd think, that if iboc was
allowed to be on 24 hours a day, that they'd leave it on, unless
something went wrong, and they had to shut it off for maintinance.  
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:19:53 -0400, Craig Healy wrote:

>Now that we have experienced several nights of IBOC operation throughout>
>the country, and most of us have had a chance to do some initial Dxing
>under these new conditions, I am interested in your responses to the
>following question:  Has the sky indeed fallen as many of us predicted?

With only a handful of stations (5%?) running IBOC, and less at night,
this
really isn't much of a test.  We can get a sampling, such as what the
1210
IBOC will do to the low-powered 1220 in Providence.  We really won't
have a
fair test of this under these conditions.  However, I am curious to see
how
badly WOR is hit by the double whammy of 700 and 720 IBOC.

A couple of things come to mind.  First is that the hiss is mostly a
single
point source due to the few stations.  When multiple stations per
frequency
come on it will be worse.  The fading won't be at the same time, and it
will
be impossible to null.

BTW, your local on 640 will be IBOC days only until they buy a second
transmitter.  May be a while.  Disney is quite committed to IBOC and
probably has turned them all loose at night, if possible.

What I do fear is the guy in upstate New York on 1040 getting his night
power essentially negated by the WBZ IBOC.  That's going to be a real
shame.
I suspect WBZ will run nights.  They seem to have some inertia in
getting
things done such as turning off the timer for "days only" IBOC.  Soon,
I'd
bet.

Craig Healy
Providence, RI


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