RHF wrote:

For One and All,

With-Respect-To : IBOC AM Radio -vice- AM Radio DXing

As part of the DX Radio Community 'we' may not like IBOC
{High Definition} "HD" AM Radio Broadcasting and the
resulting adjacent Channel Noise that it will create;
that will make AM Radio DXing [Distance AM Radio Listening]
very-very-hard-to-do or completely impossible.

- - - B U T - - -

For the Owner's of AM Radio Stations IBOC AM Radio is a
valid business decision with respect to 'their' Local
AM Radio Markets and the Local AM Radio Listeners
that 'they' hope to attract as Listeners.

Commercial AM Radio Broadcasting in the USA is "About"
Local Business Marketing -via- Radio within a City/Town,
Area or Region to 'reach' Local Radio Listeners.

DX {Distance AM Radio Listeners} are Not part of 'their'
Commercial AM Radio Broadcasting Business Model [.]
[...]



The AMers (and low-power FMers) would have been much better off
pushing for all licensees to get a digital channel in a dedicated
(non-mediumwave) digital band, where all the nighttime interference
would be nonexistent, where AMs and FMs and low-power stations and
high-power stations would have started over on an equal footing and
with absolutely perfect coverage of their markets.

But they were sold a bill of goods by the big chains, who wanted to
preserve the superiority of the facilities they had paid many
millions for -- superiority over the small station owner.

IBOC preserves the inferior -- some might say hopelessly, impossibly
inferior -- status of the small broadcaster. And that was its
primary purpose all along. In short, these small businessmen have
been totally snookered and hoodwinked.

Like the DX listener and the ordinary listener, they've been
unfairly cheated out of digital technology's promise and the
excellent service to the community they could have had with a
dedicated digital band.


With every good wish,



--

Kevin Alfred Strom.

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