"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
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| Radio Guy wrote:

| It helps your AM sound better, but it makes the adjacent channel stations
| sound worse.

| The thing is that IBOC is fine for daytime service, but a disaster for
| skywave. And what makes AM interesting and unique is skywave. If you
| treat AM as just being a low-grade local service that is cheaper than FM,
| you're missing out on the whole point and you might as well just shut
down
| the AM band completely before everyone goes bankrupt. Because it's not
| doing anyone any good.

What a GREAT idea! One way past due. Of course, IBOC is designed to
prevent exactly that, although, as someone else pointed out with AM Stereo
(of all types) all it's doing is just postponing the eventual demise of AM
radio.
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