On 9/5/10 7:40 PM, John Higdon wrote:
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.

I think we have seem the same thing for DAB and DRM. The low powers are
just sales talk.

gr, hwh

hwh wrote:


I think we have seem the same thing for DAB and DRM. The low powers are
just sales talk.

Lower power would be fine, if DAB had better error correction.

Although there is one situation where low power DAB works well, that is
in the middle of an SFN with signals coming in from several different
directions. This isn't much use however in the outer areas of a local
multiplex.