Sam Byrams wrote:
Firstly, I hate IBOC as it will likely destroy skywave listening at
night, an 80-plus year heritage we have in the USA. Further, I don't
like Ibiquity's technology. This isn't a scientific issue, but rather
a personal one.

This is the case for IBOC-AM. Skywave is pretty much what makes AM
useful and unique, and I think without it there is really no purpose to
the AM band any more. But we'll see.

For IBOC-FM, of course, there is no skywave issue but there may still
be adjacent channel interference issues.

DRM is, in my opinion, the way to go, despite the fact the audio
isn't High End, because it's a world standard that can effectively use
different bandwidths as they are available.

I agree, but it requires seperate channels. Likewise, I think the Eureka
stuff probably beats out FM-IBOC but we can't get the bandwidth for it.

I don't see why we can't have DRM on a portion of the AM band and
also on frequencies at HF, VHF and UHF that aren't utilized now on a
local basis. Clearly, the public interest demands that the number of
channels available exceed the number the five or s1x largest broadcast
companies can afford to buy up, because we need local radio.

The reason is because the public interest is no longer considered by
the FCC. The whole notion of radio serving the public went out with
the Reagan administration. There is no more public service, no more
Fairness Doctrine, no more enforcement of technical standards let alone
programming standards.
--scott
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