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Old April 6th 07, 03:03 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
Stephanie Weil Stephanie Weil is offline
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Default AM IBOC cripples installed base of over 150 million receivers in USA

On Apr 6, 9:10 am, David wrote:
my
$30 Walkman is a DX screamer, except now the IBOC from 1140 in
Sacramento and 1160 in Salt Lake messes up the 1150 from Los Angeles.


How old is your Walkman? The only Walkman I've ever used that had a
sensitive AM tuner was a 1980s model that allowed me to pick up all
the long-distance stations I could normally pick up with my electric
table radios.

While the more recent Walkmans, the tuners properly pick up all the
local stations, they're hardly DX machines. The same thing applies
for ghetto-blasters. The last ones of those with a GOOD sensitive AM
tuner were the ones that came out in the early-mid 1990s that usually
included a couple of SW bands.

There's less people listening to AM radio, so the manufacturers aren't
going to devote resources to a feature that's not going to help sell
the unit.

Stephanie Weil
New York City, USA