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Old July 14th 04, 06:33 AM
Mark Roberts
 
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Scott Dorsey had written:
| Mark Roberts wrote:
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| If AM IBOC is such hot stuff, why is it restricted to daytime hours only?
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| Because the group delay that is the result of the uneven ionosphere prevents
| it from being decoded properly when the signal is received on skip, and the
| amount of stuff coming over the horizon on skip prevents it from being
| properly received when it's being received on groundwave at night.

I didn't quite expect an answer to a rhetorical question -- but it does
point to a very fundamental flaw in the scheme.


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