Re: [IRCA] WSCR IBOC ruining reception of local WCBM

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Bill Harms <wharms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You are right, but this is something I can not understand. Ultimately
> 
> what happens on the bench or the field meter is not as important as 
> what the listener actually hears.  One of the problems with IBOC is 
> there are conditions which occur that are out of the control of 
> testing. This has been covered elsewhere. Examples of this are 
> imperfect receivers, directional antenna (and non-linearities), 
> engine noise, nigthttime skip, multipath signals, etc.  These things 
> will let digital signals and hiss through despite the most ideal set 
> up. Analog signals on AM are more forgiving.
> 

*** That's what happens when the science gets skewed by the money and
politics. Or maybe you'd call it the end justifying the means. Either
way I doubt there's much in the way of objectivity going on the the
background. It's all about pushing IBOC no matter what. 

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 & APS9B @15'
AM: Hammarlund HQ-150 & 4' FET air core loop

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