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His real name is John Higdon. He has many aliases but you probably remember
him best as "Curmudgeon" He's been around for years under many aliases. He's
a bitter old troll. Do some searching and learn more about him. He's quite
prolific!!!


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On Jan 24, 9:21 pm, "Brian Hill" wrote:
His real name is John Higdon. He has many aliases but you probably remember
him best as "Curmudgeon" He's been around for years under many aliases. He's
a bitter old troll. Do some searching and learn more about him. He's quite
prolific!!!

BH


At least his posts are halfway intelligent and informative - unlike
some other individuals who use this newsgroup.

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On Jan 25, 8:22*am, Rfburns wrote:
On Jan 24, 9:21 pm, "Brian Hill" wrote:

His real name is John Higdon. He has many aliases but you probably remember
him best as "Curmudgeon" He's been around for years under many aliases. He's
a bitter old troll. Do some searching and learn more about him. He's quite
prolific!!!


BH


- At least his posts are halfway intelligent and informative
- unlike some other individuals who use this newsgroup.
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- jw

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In fact there's one of those illiterates now.

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On Jan 25, 9:16*am, Rfburns wrote:
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- In fact there's one of those illiterates now.
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- - RF Burns - IMHO - You are entitled to YO. ~ RHF

EXACTLY ! ) ~ RHF
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On Jan 24, 9:21�pm, "Brian Hill" wrote:
His real name is John Higdon. He has many aliases but you probably remember
him best as "Curmudgeon" He's been around for years under many aliases. He's
a bitter old troll. Do some searching and learn more about him. He's quite
prolific!!!

BH


He's many persons!
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On Jan 25, 9:34Â*am, wrote:
On Jan 24, 9:21�pm, "Brian Hill" wrote:

His real name is John Higdon. He has many aliases but you probably remember
him best as "Curmudgeon" He's been around for years under many aliases. He's
a bitter old troll. Do some searching and learn more about him. He's quite
prolific!!!


BH


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"Brian Hill" wrote in message
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His real name is John Higdon. He has many aliases but you probably
remember
him best as "Curmudgeon" He's been around for years under many aliases.
He's
a bitter old troll. Do some searching and learn more about him. He's quite
prolific!!!


IBOCock is not John Higdon, a good and respected engineer in the Bay Area.


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On Jan 25, 6:40�pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:
"Brian Hill" wrote in message

...

His real name is John Higdon. He has many aliases but you probably
remember
him best as "Curmudgeon" He's been around for years under many aliases.
He's
a bitter old troll. Do some searching and learn more about him. He's quite
prolific!!!


IBOCock is not John Higdon, a good and respected engineer in the Bay Area.


Well, look what John had to say about HD/IBOC:

"NPR story on HD radio startup"

"Problems with the system that pervade the entire HD/IBOC data and
codec from beginning to end, all the way to the signal on the air
persist. The codec, by today's standards, is grossly inferior on FM
and literally unspeakable on AM (gee, I had no idea). Since they're
hardwired into the receivers, they won't be changed anytime soon, if
ever."

"But it goes beyond that. There were bad choices of network layer such
that reliability is compromised. The code used in exciters has a
severe memory leak, so the exciters crash routinely. The receivers can
be locked up solid by malformed packets, requiring a power cycle to
restore operation. The list goes on and on and on."

"Will any of this get fixed? Probably not, since all the money right
now is going to promotion, not to technical bug fixes. This is a
system that has been in development for a decade and a half, and it
still has problems from beginning to end that range from audio
encoding, through the transport layers, to the encoding, and now, with
the spectral regrowth problems, to the broadcast bands themselves; you
know...that which is supposed to be serving the public. I would love
to be implementing digital radio. But this is garbage."

http://tinyurl.com/2kbzsn

Do you still think he is, "a good and respected engineer in the Bay
Area"?
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