"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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"David Eduardo" wrote in message
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"dxAce" wrote in message
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AM HD compares favorably to most online streams, to iPod audio, and the
that
available currently from satellite. It is vastly better than analog AM.

Yeah, and it QRM's two additional channels to boot!

Channels nobody is listening to.


David, **** OFF! I don't generally use foul language, but you bring it out
in me. And that ain't good. You keep saying nobody is listening. Well, you
are then calling everyone in this NG, and tens-to-hundreds of thousands of
people across the US, and hundreds-of-thousands to MILLIONS in Canada,
Mexico and the Caribbean "nobody".

The measurement of out of market listening in the US and Mexico shows that
there is next to zero listening to out of market signals. Compared to the
gain to be had with HD, the infentissimal loss of out of market listening is
a very reasonable trade. we are talking about a minor sacrifice, and in
exchange getting a possible extension of the product life of both AM and FM
radio.

In the Aribtron data, which includes every county in the US and Puerto Rico,
there are only a couple of hundred stations out of 13,500 that get listening
outside their own market (MSA). Most of these cases are adjacent markets,
like Riverside and LA or Palm Beach and the Miami MSA, and are for mostly
FM. A few AM cases are known, mostly like WGN and WLS that have local, and
protected, signals in several adjacent metros due to the unusual ground
conductivith of parts of the Midwest. These are very few in number.

In the Caribbean, there are ISLANDS. There is no listening from one Island
to another on AM or FM. The listening patterns are like the US, but the
local bands tend to be fuller so stations in other towns on the same islands
can´t be heard (Puerto Rico ha 132 stations) And geography makes out of
market FM listening impssible. AM is almost gone in the Lesser Antilles,
with more than half the AMs of 25 years ago gone, and the local listening is
to FM.

In Mexico, there is a very high station density, so much so that AMs have
reduced power because they do not get any gain from rural coverage... as
there are local stations in all areas.

We take great offense to that. I consider your IBOC shilling SPAM, and if
you continue with it on this NG, I will personally mount a campaign to
have you releaved of your internet access. WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT! Not
the shilling, and not the QRM. GO AWAY!

I am so scared I am trembling.

You can't fact the facts, obviously.