"David Eduardo" wrote in message
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"Frank Dresser" wrote in message
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Most people would probably blame localized interference, and again,
the
average listener doesn't know beans about engineering and won't call
the
station to complain.

Believe me, our listeners complain over everything. In Miami, WAQI
listeners
call every time the Cuban synchronized jammers change operation.
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IBOC interference sounds like the usual sort of radio hiss which
everybody
is used to, but there's a whole lot more hiss.

Were stations getting swamped with complaints about more common sources
of
noise such as from computers and TV sets?

And in LA,
sports listeners quickly complain when we do not turn HD off for live
soccer
games.

Am I missing something here? I thought "nobody" was bothered by IBOC
interference.

It is not interference. It is the delay. HD has a fallback the analog
feature, whereby if the digital signal drops out, the analog signal comes
in. This requires buffering the analog signal by 8.1 seconds to compensate
for the delay in the digital processing.

Similarly, stations turn off "indecency" delay during live sports.

This is to allow listeners with radios to listen to play by play in the
stadium. However, with the FCC announcing today a review of sports
broadcasts for indecency, stations will probably keep the indecency delay
going, eliminating the ability to have simultaneous play by play forever.



That's convienient. Today's IBOC delay is tomorrow's FCC mandated indecency
delay.

By the way, are listeners also complaining about interference from such
sources as TVs and computers?

Frank Dresser

"Frank Dresser" wrote in message
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By the way, are listeners also complaining about interference from such
sources as TVs and computers?

We used to get these.

TV complaints were decades ago. Pretty much everyone learned a TV and a
radio can not sit together and play nice.

Computer stuff started generating calls in the late 80's as offices got
computerized fully, and from homes inthe early 90's. Not a lot of them, but
certainly enough to know people were noticing. Again, I think folks
understand that now.