[IRCA] Random thoughts on IBOC

[Bill Harms <philcobill@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Random thoughts on IBOC.

I am still skeptical and a recent quote about the Citadel suspension of 
nighttime IBOC corroborates this. I believe that the powers that be 
believe that digital in some form is inevitable on the AM band and that 
the interference issue is nothing more than a speed bump on the way to 
attaining that goal. That is why our complaints may seem to be falling 
on deaf ears.  These people believe that if you tweak and change the 
system enough, it will eventually work. In other words, they have not 
been convinced that this will not work.

But I have to wonder, can you make a silk purse out of a pig's ear. I 
believe that no matter what is put in place, stations will lose 
coverage, even if they are using a pure digital mode because of skywave 
and mutual interference? The suits have not accepted the fact that the 
raw material, the AM band itself, is not conducive to digital radio 
especially without a major revamping of allocations and stations going 
off the air. Is that what they really want?

-- 
Bill Harms
Elkridge, Maryland

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