Eddie Haskel wrote:
I whole-heartedly agree with you on your findings "Umarc". It really has
nothing to offer the local **FM** listener. HOWEVER....in the Southern
California market it would kick ass on the "AM" market with a vengence.A lot
of the local AM outlets have sold out to the hispanic market because AM
radio sounds so bad for music.Considering how much better AM IBOC sounds
than analog, and the fact that the mexican government thinks it's cool to
fire up 10Khz away from US stations..IBOC is just what the renagade
beaner-blasters deserve.

My limited experience with AM IBOC is that it seems to sound worse than
the better quality AM analogue signals, and of course it makes it impossible
to put out a wideband analogue signal. It's also going to be much more
subject to adjacent channel interference from Mexico.

I wish I could say IBOC would be the saviour of AM, because AM certainly
could use one. I could at least believe IBOC will result in better quality
sound for the average listener on a cheap car radio listening in the daytime,
and you can argue that this is where the profit is.

I would like to see such stations like KNX,KFWB,KFI,KABC-AM (and some of the
San Diego stations) push the IBOC music service, the data services and
re-claim the 535-1710Khz band for use in the US of A.......Eddie

I'd be interested to see them try. And I will say that stations that try
IBOC are forced to clean up their antenna system and deal with group delay
problems, which will certainly benefit them if they should decide to move
back to wideband analogue operation.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."