SMS wrote:
On 9/5/2010 1:44 PM, Kevin Alfred Strom wrote:

Many people, myself included, listened to stations far outside their
so-called "protected contours" for the vastly increased choice it
offered (and invested in superior equipment for doing so).

When were those stations and their out-of area listeners guaranteed that
they'd be able to be received far outside their protected contour
forever? The protected contours are there for a reason. Whatever changes
are made that don't affect a station's protected contour are fair game.
[...]



Shoehorning in another station is one thing.

Allowing, and even encouraging, existing stations to make their
signals multiple times wider with gigantic white noise generators is
quite another.

It's the same mentality that says that requiring switching power
supplies to have sufficient filtering so that no audible noise is
produced on nearby sensitive AM receivers is "too expensive" -- and
that, to save the Chinese factories and importers a few cents, we're
just going to accept turning the AM and HF bands into a sea of
buzzing noises.

After all, the locals can still be heard inside their "protected
contours"! Anything else is "fair game." Right?

So just take the pristine bands -- where you used to be able to hear
galactic noise when signals weren't present, and even the weakest
signals were a joy to listen to if you had a good antenna and
receiver -- and fill them up with digital hash.

Fair game? I call it very bad engineering. I call it gross misuse of
a natural resource. And I call it sick.





I find all the lies about IBOC fascinating
[...]



It isn't a lie that IBOC is an inferior system whose only rational
justification is that the money-men wanted to preserve their
superiority in the existing tiered power hierarchy.



With all good wishes,


Kevin Alfred Strom.
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http://kevinalfredstrom.com/