[IRCA] Another perspective on AM IBOC

[kevin redding <big_h00pla@xxxxxxxxx>]

Keith

This is where I am. The train has left the station. I figure that  
there were some who had a similar situation when the FCC wanted to  
move FM from the 45 MHz band to the current location. Once it started  
on the way to being moved, it wasn't going to stop. Those who had old  
Armstrong band radios had to get one that got the new band if they  
wanted to hear FM.

Total digital is inevitable. If it was ever going to be stopped, it  
would have been during the commenting period and it would have taken  
a monstrous number of comments to stop it.

*IF* people still listen to radio, they sure aren't DXers and if they  
somehow wander on to the AM band, and they hear AM that sounds ok and  
has no static, they actually might like it. Who knows if MW IBOC will  
DX? We do know that digital radio is not so affected by your TV with  
the noisy power supply, the guy behind your house with an arc welder,  
or even dimmer switches and touch lamps.

People, the average ones, they will like it because there is no  
static. They only will listen though if the programming is good.  
Nothing can fix that with a digital signal.

I complained about it to the FCC long and hard, but the train is  
gone. Digital is here. We aren't going to change it.

Kevin

On Mar 30, 2007, at 8:36 AM, longwave@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I think it would have happened anyway.  In a way I'm contradicting  
> what I said in an earlier email by saying this. In the same way you  
> are too by saying comments would have made a difference before but  
> nothing will make a difference now.
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