Re: [IRCA] IBOC Revisited

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Barry McLarnon <bdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 Here's a litmus test: ask yourself what were your best
> catches 
> over the last year or two, and then make a realistic assessment of
> whether 
> they would've been possible in an IBOC environment.
> 
> For example, 
> one of my best catches last season was KKOB-770 in NM.  To snare
> them, I had 
> to carefully tweak a phasing box to get a deep null on WABC, and then
> I was 
> lucky enough to catch an ID from KKOB (aided by a pause in the WABC
> talk) 
> just before they switched to night pattern.  Today, that catch would
> simply 
> be impossible.  


I agree 100%. I have focused my relatively small DX activity the past 2
years on pulling difficult DX out from under the big Eastern clears.

My best catch in that group was KTNN-660-AZ. Wouldn't happen with IBOC
on. Nor would several of my others on 1540, 1130, 1140, 1100, 650 and
770.

This season, probably whatever I hear will be on GY's or high-band
regionals, and that will continue to be the case as long as IBOC is
around, although I could lose several of those frequencies as well.

This isn't a new frontier. As I've said before, it's either a period of
great reduction in receptions or, if IBOC lives, it's probably the end
of the hobby for many of us.

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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