On 29 Dec 2003 16:20:27 GMT, "David Eduardo"
wrote:

It does not degrade analog FM at all; on AM I feel the degradation looks bad
on paper, but in reality it is insignificant and may be an improvment.

I knew this would eventually happen. You and I usually agree on most
things. With IBOC we part company. I'm not ready to accept improved
degradation.

I've heard the New York IBOC stations both on analog and IBOC
receivers. It was annoying as hell. Now that I'm at a distance where
their signals don't overload my receiver I can hear the adjacent hash
on every AM receiver I own.

Rich

On 19 Dec 2003 00:01:29 GMT, George wrote:

On 17 Dec 2003 15:58:21 GMT, "videonex" wrote:


"Robert L. Herman" wrote in message
...
To ansdwer your question.

First of all it's an all day thing. It seems to be all over town. About a
month ago I was riding out to a place where I play piano music for some
older people at an assisted living place on the other side of town and the
distorted sound never cleared up from my house to the other side of town.

I was outside of Kazoo for Christmas (my younger sister lives in Lawrence) -
the sound on WKMI varied all over the place, from sounding fair to good, to
dreadful.

As I stated earlier the distortion was heard as far away as Battle Creek.
To
discribe the sound would bew like running a radio with batteries that are
about to die. You know that raspy sound that a station makes when the
batteries are about to die.

I suspect it may be a problem in the STL. Or possibly a processor that they
are monitoring "in front of"... I can't imagine the sales droids not
mentioning it to the technical staff, however. When it is bad, it is dreadful
sounding. Almost like overmod, but without the loudness. Something is
clipping when it shouldn't be.

Bill Blomgren wrote:

I suspect it may be a problem in the STL. Or possibly a processor that they
are monitoring "in front of"... I can't imagine the sales droids not
mentioning it to the technical staff, however. When it is bad, it is dreadful
sounding. Almost like overmod, but without the loudness. Something is
clipping when it shouldn't be.

You're right about the sound, but their studios are at the transmitter.
Other local engineers have mentioned it to their engineer, but no
change. Perhaps management just doesn't care, or won't spend the money.

Chuck

"David Eduardo" wrote in message ...

However, there are a "scad" (to avoid having to say either "many" or "most")
of AMs that do not deserve to exist, as they cover very little, or have
miserable facilities and high-Q DAs and no intent to improve. I just wonder
if IBOC may create a band cleansing in the process.

Could you clarify a portion of your statement for me? Are you really
saying that AM stations with little coverage should just go dark?
What about AMs that serve small towns and rural areas?

Just wondering...

In article , radiodad wrote:
"David Eduardo" wrote in message ...

However, there are a "scad" (to avoid having to say either "many" or "most")
of AMs that do not deserve to exist, as they cover very little, or have
miserable facilities and high-Q DAs and no intent to improve. I just wonder
if IBOC may create a band cleansing in the process.

Could you clarify a portion of your statement for me? Are you really
saying that AM stations with little coverage should just go dark?
What about AMs that serve small towns and rural areas?

AMs that cover small towns and rural areas, but which provide no local
programming and repeat only satellite programming are not providing
actual service.

Yes, there are some small AM stations that actually have local programming
and which provide a real service to the local community, but these are sadly
in the minority and that minority continues shrinking fast.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

"radiodad" wrote in message
...
"David Eduardo" wrote in message
...

However, there are a "scad" (to avoid having to say either "many" or
"most")
of AMs that do not deserve to exist, as they cover very little, or have
miserable facilities and high-Q DAs and no intent to improve. I just
wonder
if IBOC may create a band cleansing in the process.

Could you clarify a portion of your statement for me? Are you really
saying that AM stations with little coverage should just go dark?
What about AMs that serve small towns and rural areas?

There are many stations in metro areas that have signals that are so
directional they cover only one side of some streets! Often, these don't
cover any cohesive area, and are simply inadequate for any purpose.

Other stations are so limited in power, or so directional at night they
serve no useful purpose.

Stations with low power can serve small communities. But defective signals
in metro areas are generally not doing anyone any good.

Cleaning out the band selectively might enable some rural stations to g
fulltime usefully, or some metro signals to cover the entire market by
losening the protection requirementos .

Just wondering...