On 3/2/2011 4:01 AM, RHF wrote:
On Mar 1, 10:48 am, iBiquity
wrote:
"Mexico OK's HD Radio For Stations Near U.S. Border"

May 21, 2008 - "Mexico's Federal Telecommunications Commission
(CoFeTel) is authorizing radio stations within 320 kilometers, or
about 200 miles, of the Mexico-U.S. border to begin broadcasting in HD
Radio."

http://www.radioink.com/HeadlineEntr...&pt=todaysnews

"Mexico Says Hang on a Minute!"

"Mexico wants U.S. radio regulators to re-think their decision to
allow AMs to go IBOC at night and FMs to operate on the extended
hybrid digital carriers. Our neighbors to the south say they are not
happy the FCC authorized its recent 'final' IBOC rules governing
broadcast transmissions without first coordinating those through
international treaties."

http://www.radioworld.com/article/6410

It's Borderblasters, revisited. Mexico wants to have the option to
unleash mutually-assured-hiss-destruction (MADD HISS) in the event the
IBOC noise from La Frontera gets too bad. That's all, folks! LMFAO!

Things have a way of Resolving Themselves Over-Time !

IBOC : The Path To HD-Radio Acceptance and Use . . .

Phase One of IBOC HD-Radio Implementation :
{Years 1~5}
Mixture of Analog and IBOC Digital Broadcasters
with very few HD-Radio Receivers :
The Analog Radio Listeners* Notice "The Hash/Buzz"
* Radio Listening is both Local and Distant Radio
Station Listening.
.
Phase Two of IBOC HD-Radio Implementation :
{Years 6~10}
Still a Mixture of Analog and IBOC Digital Broadcasters
with a mixture of Analog and HD-Radio Receivers :
Still the Analog Radio Listeners* Notice "The Hash/Buzz"
-but- HD-Radio Listeners Using HD-Radios Do Not
Hear "The Hash/Buzz"
* Radio Listening is mostly now Local still with some
Distant Radio Station Listening.
.
Phase Three of IBOC HD-Radio Implementation :
{Years 11~15}
Mostly IBOC Digital Broadcasters with some Analog
and mostly HD-Radio Receivers with some Analog :
Majority is now HD Radio Listeners* Who Are Now
Using HD-Radios and Do Not Hear "The Hash/Buzz"
-and- There still is a few Analog Radio Listeners who still
Notice "The Hash/Buzz" when they do not Listen 'Local'
* Radio Listening is now almost all 'Local' with very little
Distant Radio Station Listening.

NOTE : The AM/FM Radio Station Business Model
is Built-On "Local" Advertising -and- IBOC Forces All
Radio Listening To Be "Local" and Reduces Distant
Radio Listening ~translation~ IBOC Is Good Business.

-note- A Brokered Radio Program on 500 Radio Stations
with an 800# a/o Website is Still "Local" Advertising :
That is simply scaled-up by the means of distribution
to a nation-wide 'localized' market.

and that is the way 'i' see it ~ RHF

That's not an unreasonable view.

Eventually the allowable digital power is going to be raised to a level
where it really does cause unacceptable interference with analog, even
locally. So far, if you're listening to local stations, within their
protected contour, you're highly unlikely to notice any interference (at
least there have been no valid incidences of it that have been reported
to the FCC), but for long distance listening there can be issues. Alas,
just as getting away with operating components far beyond their maximum
ratings for years, then getting a batch that works only slightly beyond
their maximum ratings, there was never any guarantee to these stations
that they could operate beyond their protected contour forever.