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"David Eduardo" wrote:

"Telamon" wrote in message
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Existing radios are 100% compatible, on both FM and AM.

The way AM and FM are listened to today, there is no loss by adding
HD as an alternative to analog.

Sorry David, IBOC is compatible, but not 100%, as the analog sidebands
are limited and adjacent channels have interference by the digital
sidebands.

As has been shown, even at FCC level, there is no significant usage of
stations adjacent to locals in each market. So there is no loss if there is
what ammounts to unmeasurable listening.

Again the marketing viewpoint. This isn't a radio marketing news group
it is a hobby news group where people listen for other reasons than
tuning in for the programming material. That is not to say that the
programming is not the reason as I have tuned in out of market stations
to get programs not offered in my area.

People reading this news group care and do listen to out of market
stations and that listening is degraded by IBOC. Logically, since this
listening exists and is degraded by IBOC then IBOC becomes incompatible.
The best that you can argue is that IBOC is mostly compatible but that
is not 100% by any means.

Some people including myself do not agree that the existing
level of compatibility is acceptable. If it was 100% nobody would be
complaining about it.

I don't hear listeners complaining. I hear mostly DXers whining.

You don't care about DXers in your job but you should posting to this
news group.

The greater good is trying to preserve the existing free terrestrial
broadcast system, which will not endure unless a digital alternative is
offered.

We got that through numerous posts you have made.

You have well explained the radio
station/marketing perspective on this but that does not change the
listening experience, which has limitations placed on it by IBOC over
the existing long time analog transmission scheme.

However, the only listening being disrupted is the potential to listen to
adjacents... something that, in practice, is just not done.

Well I hate to break it to you but listening to adjacent stations is
"done" by the people reading this news group. How many times does
someone have to post a complaint here that IBOC degrades their
reception? Please don't come back with the marketing perspective because
I get it already.

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Telamon
Ventura, California