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[IRCA] article on IBOC
WBZ will not drop IBOC until the transmitter has been pried out of it's hot dead hands. I've written several emails to Mark Manuellian chief engineer of WBZ in the past complaining about it'd wideband noise jamming other stations, and well let me put it this way, his attitude was not exactly conducive to an ongoing dialogue about the negatives of IBOC. WINS 1010 and WBZ 1030 completely jam 1000-1050 kHz here most nights, besides the jamming the audio is also weak and distorted and barely listenable, in HD it sounds shrill and artifact laden. (the few seconds I actually got it to lock in).
Bob Young
Millbury, Ma
KB1OKL
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> Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 23:30:32 -0400
> From: Barry McLarnon <bm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> On 09/01/2013 03:00 PM, Craig Healy wrote:
> > Now if only WBZ-1030 in Boston, MA drops IBOC, there will be some
> > happier adjacent stations. 1020 Pittsburg, PA and 1040 in upstate NY.
> Don't hold your breath for that one. WBZ is a CBS station, and the head
> engineering honcho of CBS is one Glynn Walden, formerly of Ibiquity.
> CBS is a major investor in Ibiquity and its predecessors, and it's only
> a slight exaggeration to refer to Walden as the Father of IBOC. WBZ
> will never drop IBOC while he has any influence at CBS.
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> That upstate NY 1040 station, WYSL, filed a formal and well-documented
> interference complaint against WBZ way back in 2007 (I helped out by
> providing an engineering report describing the nature of the
> interference). It fell on deaf ears at the FCC, and no action at all
> was taken. Big money talks, and the FCC listens. WYSL finally had to
> resort to getting an FM translator to sidestep the interference problem.
>
> Barry
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> Barry McLarnon Ottawa, ON
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