Re: [IRCA] IBOC/analog reception comparisons.

Such a parade of misinformation deserves clarification.

1. Kahn is hardly “not of radio.” He invented the first analog AM stereo system more than 30 years ago, putting it on XETRA when the FCC would not allow it. He manufactured various broadcast devices, like the Powerside, over the years. He is just as much a part of radio as Gates and Harris, just smaller.

2. Kahn’s rejection of the FCC AM stereo decision and his lengthy legal proceedings against it caused AM stereo to be delayed so long as to make the resultant winning system irrelevant as FM had taken over 2/3 of listening by the time it happened. Kahn can rightly be accused of either causing or hastening the death of AM as a music medium. Kahn has been part of radio, albeit a contentious and dissident one, for as long as I can remember.

3. Kahn was contentious long before IBOC / HD were even dreamed of. The stop he put on AM stereo was in 1978… and not resolved for nearly 5 years. If his picture does not appear next to “contentious” in the dictionary, it is only because some politician beat him by a slim margin.

4. AM HD sounds very, very good. In fact, it sounds “near FM” quality, and the algorithm is still improving. The ringing and artifact filled sound of the earlier algorithms is long gone and the audio is clear, comparing favorably with the quality of audio on MP3 player devices.

5. FM HD sounds better than analog FM, in part because it does not have the pre-emphasis curve which was an answer that worked in old technology that, unfortunately, is not one we could eliminate because of, precisely, those billion radios.

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Subject: Re: [IRCA] IBOC/analog reception comparisons.

Hola Curt y Compaes -

Check out www.wrathofkahn.org. Oh yeah, HD/IBOC whole-cloth syndicalistas wail stupidly that Mr. Kahn is not of radio. Their way of saying they're factually bankrupt.

Kahn's 'crime'? He has HD's number. What does IBOC offer? Bad cell phone audio, horrible - illegal by analog standards - interference, de facto theft of one trillion dollars of privately owned radios, and Soviet-style jamming.

Kahn is tediously characterized by HD-pod-people as 'contentious'. Post-90's kleptocrats sling that term along with 'threatening' and 'intimidating' in same way ol' Cookie slung greaszy hash at The Night Owl Diner.

'Contentious' is what thugs call those who won't eat their soup. Yes it tastes unusual, but Cookie stepped in five piles of it just for you. Why he didn't even scrape his shoes upon returning from walking Fido. He lovingly tossed them in his pot the better to feed you your 'Inevitable Digital Future'.

HD is Kleptocracy's triple header: Steal a billion analog radios, ruin RF spectrum, line monopolycasters scabies-ridden pockets.

= Z. =

"We could take half the AM stations off-air. No one would even notice,

let alone miss them."

- reported excerpt from Ibiquity 'objective' computer study.