On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:43:47 -0400, Tony Meloche
wrote:

wavetrapper wrote:
Ron,

You are hearing the broadcasting disaster known as IBOC...brought to
you by Ibiquity. There are about 70 stations now running IBOC. This
creates a digital signal for the "wonderful" HD radio that no one
wants. It wipes out the adjacent channels on both sides.

The FCC is a big fan of IBOC and approved it last year (so we can have
higher quality sounding signals on AM). So far, daytime only (except
for tests). I can't imagine what it will be like when it gets approved
for night use on MW.

You can kiss at least +/- 10 khz goodbye for any station running IBOC.

Let's hope the marketplace votes "no" on this and IBOC dies a swift
death.

Russ



I'm not familiar enough with IBOC at this point to have strong
feelings about it one way or another, but I well remember a bit of
idiocy making the rounds in the early to mid 70's called "stereo AM".
Stereo lo-fi - sheesh. I thought it was an assinine idea then, and I
think so now. Evidently, the marketplace agreed, and it died a quick death.

Tony

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Stereo AM sounded really good until the NRSC mask and the
complete-tuner-on-a-chip with the 2.7 kHz filter.