Re: [IRCA] Random thoughts on IBOC

["Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've been having an on-going argument with an engineer friend of mine here
in the Carolinas and a radio station owner in Pineville/Middlesboro,
Kentucky concenring AM Stereo and IBOC.

I will adopt AM Stereo LONG before I wil lEVER adopt IBOC on WABV 1590! (And
in fact, there is a good chance that WABV could go AM Stereo when we buy a
new solid state transmitter if I can convince the ownership!!) I will NEVER
EVER adopt IBOC unless absolutely force to by station ownership or mandated
to by the government.

I think FM IBOC works fairly well, with the multicasting and all.. a pretty
cool way to use your FM signal. The FM IBOC interference isn't as bad
because FM doesn't skip like AM does.

I think we simply need to stop complaining and adapt to IBOC as it happens.
I'm not saying we shouldn't still complain nor am I saying that IBOC on AM
wil lever work.. but some of us need to stop our childish whining about how
bad IBOC is for our precious hobby. Suyre, I don't like it anymore then any
of you do.. but our whining and gestapo like complaining won't help the
hobby any.

Paul Walker
www.walkerbroadcasting.com


On 10/4/07, Bill Harms <philcobill@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   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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