"Brenda Ann Dyer" wrote in message
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Begging your pardon, Eduardo.. but you're full of yourself and of
something else that decorum doesn't allow me to mention. I don't live in
the middle of cities, and most places I HAVE lived, the so called "city
contour" doesn't reach where I live.. and some of those places have even
been within city limits. IBOC DOES INTERFERE WITH LISTENED TO SIGNALS.
Not everyone lives in your perfect radio world. And the FCC, Ibiquity, and
station engineers that run stations with IBOC shouldn't be arbitrarily
deciding that I or anyone else is not important. It's a very good way to
get a portion of their anatomy handed to them financially.

The FCC in the HD review mad a reasond decision that the small amount of
interference to secondary signals was overwhelmed by the need to give radio
some form of digital capability. The loss of fringe signal reception was
deemed to be a similar situation to the decison to break down the 1-A clear
channels back in the 70's, thereby reducing the service areas of the (few)
1-A's in the US as there was evidence that their night skywave reception was
on the wane and the public would benefit from more stations.

In the present situation, the FCC considered the stability of the broadcast
industry in not creating a new band for digital, and decided that some
interference was acceptable in exchange for an in-band system that created a
digital broadcast capability. There are now several more countires adopting
HD, starting with Brazil and several in Asia. Mexico has stations on
already, although the system is deemed "experimental."