--- Scott Fybush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, Scott, from the article I read, I would NEVER hire him at a station I owned due to factual errors.
HD is not by any stretch of the imagination and never stood for that. It's not CD qualityh or even NEAR CD quality. AM HD at night erodes a lot of the local groundwave coverage of stations. We already knew that in 2004. When I went out west, I drove through Nashville at night twice. WLAC has *S E V E R E* IBOC interference from then WSAI, now WCKY. There was only a fairly narrow and small area on I-40 that WLAC was somewhat noise free. Otherwise there was a VERY annoying hiss in the background through the city limits. Just beyond that WLAC became rapidly unpleasant to listen to and then just unlistenable, and within primary ground coverage. WLAC though normally super strong in Silverstreet is badly hissed up. I've lost WBT at night! Jerry Dowd at WBT is not very happy at all. As for FM, EVEN with an outside FM antenna on the inside ( ask Kevin Redding about my set up ) I have a hard time getting decoding. The 1% power level for digital on FM is too low. The proposed going to 10% will cover better with a major jump in interference. And I'm sorry to inform IRA, the rules of nature don't bow to HD radio. There will be skywave, there ARE NOT any antennas that don't have skywave. You can't order a K9 A400 solar conditioin just because you want to run HD. Yeah, wanna run HD full power? Fine! Cut off your analog NOW and go all digital. Powell NNNN POP email is powell at backroads DOT net _______________________________________________ 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
