dxAce wrote:
** U S A. Strong rumor from allegedly reliable sources is that the FCC will be
making an across-the-board authorization for nighttime IBOC on MW within the
next two weeks. Better enjoy your nighttime MW listening and DXing while you
can. More and more ``clear`` channel stations have been testing it in the
daytime, and once they all start running it at night, large portions of the AM
band will be devoted to noise (Glenn Hauser, July 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Thanks to 'Eduardo' and all the other beancounting dip****s out there!

HD/IBOC = QRM

dxAce
Michigan
USA

There will probably be a flood of formal objections, if not lawsuits,
to the FCC from stations being interfered with IBOC; the FCC has a
formal complaint process in place, that if it becomes necessary, the
station causing the interference can be forced to shut down the IBOC
transmission. Instead of posting rumors, wait and see, if this really
happens. I have checked most of the electronic stores on-line(Circuit
City, Best Buy, Radio Shack, etc.), and most of them only carry one HD
radio. I can't imagine there will be any public demand/interest in
IBOC, considering satellite radio, so stations will find out real
quickly, when they have lost 99% of their listener base, if IBOC ever
goes completely digital. Honestly, does iBiquity think they are going
to be able to obsolete the estimated 800 million analog AM/FM radios in
the US. As posted before, stations have turned off IBOC, because of
adjacent-channel interference to their neighbors.