Re: [IRCA] KGO with HD

2007-09-15 Thread Patrick Martin
Bill, Whatever it is, it is being generated by their IBOC signal. They all seem to have it or at least most do. I noticed it on KFBK, KGO, and even KEX at night. It has something to do with the skip signal I would guess. Any fading it sounds like a hiss fraightrain behind the signal. Really awful

Re: [IRCA] KGO with HD

2007-09-15 Thread Patrick Martin
Bill, The KGO signal has "hiss" in it. No doubt about that. They may lose a lot of their night audience if they keep the HD at night. I had to adjust the tone control on my Super Radio to mask the hiss. I can live with it, but it is there and I doubt John Q Public will put up with it. They had thi

Re: [IRCA] KGO with HD

2007-09-15 Thread Bill Harms
Pat, are you hearing artifacts from the non-linearity problem that directional arrays have, or are you hearing something else? Please straighten this confused DXer out. bill Patrick Martin wrote: > The issue with all IBOC at night is the non stable skip signal. I can > always hear that fraight

Re: [IRCA] KGO with HD

2007-09-15 Thread Bill Harms
Bill, I take it that KGO is suffering from self-created IBOC interference due to asymmetry in its sidebands because of its directional antenna array. Is that true? Bill bill kral wrote: > KGO does not play music so if it does not sound good > here in BC,No matter,it's just talk and it sounds

Re: [IRCA] KGO with HD

2007-09-15 Thread Michael Hawkins
I haven't been on the E/W axis of KGO lately, but when I used to drive into the Bay Area on 580 in the Pleasanton-Livermore area, KGO was pretty much unlistenable as far as the audio quality goes...something about their pattern which I never bothered to figure out. I doubt that IBOC would impro

Re: [IRCA] KGO with HD

2007-09-15 Thread Patrick Martin
The issue with all IBOC at night is the non stable skip signal. I can always hear that fraight train behind the audio. So there are problems. Patrick Patrick Martin KAVT Reception Manager ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kota

[IRCA] KGO with HD

2007-09-15 Thread bill kral
KGO does not play music so if it does not sound good here in BC,No matter,it's just talk and it sounds like Bernie Ward's voice has some IBOC hash in it anyway.The only difference I can hear is that the voice of the on air guy causes a bit of hiss which trails behind for a split second.Other than