[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That sounds... awful underneath. > Great recording BTW. > > wow.
Yes, it does - but again, that's with a Sony SRF-A100, one of a very, very tiny number of AM stereo radios that use an envelope detector that can't deal with the quadrature modulation that AM IBOC uses. This is NOT in any way typical of what an average listener tuned to KGO would be hearing. If there are a half-dozen listeners in KGO's local area using the A100 or a similar radio, more than 20 years after they were last sold, I'd be stunned. Perhaps when my local 50 kW IBOC blaster, WHAM, turns the HD back on in the morning, I'll pull out a sampling of more typical radios (along with my Carver TX11b, which has a similar envelope detector to the Sony) and record what it sounds like. Again, none of this should be construed as an endorsement of AM IBOC, about which I'm still skeptical - just a plea that if DXers want our concerns about the technology to be taken seriously in the larger engineering community, we have to be realistic about our concerns. This recording, while an accurate reflection of what the A100 sounds like when tuned to an IBOC signal, is NOT representative of what the average analog listener will hear. If it were, there's not an AM station anywhere that would be running the system in the first place. s _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com