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Richard Evans wrote:

DigitalRadioScams wrote:

The whole IBOC system was puposely designed to jam the smaller
adjacent-cheenl stations of the dial.

So is that why it's so spectrally inefficient?
To use up more bandwidth, hence produce more jamming.

The idea was to ultimately retire analog FM entirely, thus enabling
iBiquity to capture a royalty on every bit of material on the FM band.
iBiquity understated the amount of IBOC signal necessary to achieve
"equivalent" coverage with the stations' FM signals so that it could get
its foot in the door.

When it became apparent that -20db was inadequate (even though there was
still major interference with analog signals), they lobbied for -10db.
That was an "oops" of an order of magnitude. They got -14db instead, but
the deleterious effects on analog FM at that level remains to be seen,
since most stations have yet to take advantage of it.

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