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In article , Doug Smith W9WI
wrote: (please do not take the above post as an endorsement of IBOC. IMHO it will deprive millions of Americans of their sole nighttime AM service, Why do those millions of Americans need a nighttime AM service, which is probably pretty poor anyway, when there is ubiquitous nighttime FM service available? Regards, John Byrns Surf my web pages at, http://users.rcn.com/jbyrns/ |
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John Byrns wrote:
Why do those millions of Americans need a nighttime AM service, which is probably pretty poor anyway, when there is ubiquitous nighttime FM service available? Because I am in a typical area I will comment. The local AM stations spend virtually all their time on sports or if not inane political talk. The FM stations abound in country music and every variation of rock that can be found except for the NPR stations which are either classical music (not objectionable as far as I'm concerned) or jazz. The intelligent talk comes from former class I-A clear channel stations via sky wave from other markets. I particularly like Milt Rosenberg on WGN in Chicago. I've heard the tests of IBOC. I understand that the military will not relinquish the 1500 mHz spectrum area that other countries are using for Eureka, but there will be a lot of high UHF spectrum available with the DTV conversion. It's been said that the NAB has killed the idea of Eureka because it would give everyone an equal playing field whether you are a 250 watt peashooter or a 50kw blowtorch. I'm not exactly sure of the working of Eureka but possibly an antenna height difference could be built in to give the present higher power stations an advantage. Just my humble opinion. Charlie |
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In article , John Byrns wrote:
In article , Doug Smith W9WI wrote: (please do not take the above post as an endorsement of IBOC. IMHO it will deprive millions of Americans of their sole nighttime AM service, Why do those millions of Americans need a nighttime AM service, which is probably pretty poor anyway, when there is ubiquitous nighttime FM service available? If nighttime AM propagation characteristics are no longer considered useful, then indeed the whole AM band is basically not useful any longer, because skip is what makes AM what it is. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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John Byrns wrote:
Why do those millions of Americans need a nighttime AM service, which is probably pretty poor anyway, when there is ubiquitous nighttime FM service available? Is an American Family Radio all-religion-all-the-time station a suitable substitute for a modern-rock outlet? (yes, under FCC rules. No, for anyone who listens to either station...) -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com |
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