[IRCA] WHP 580 IBOC

2011-04-07 Thread Tom Dimeo
Yes Patrick, WHP does use IBOC but only during the day when the station is nondirectional. The program director told me it would be very expensive to modify the night time directional array for IBOC and I guess Clear Channel didn't think it was worth the cost. If IBOC had become more popular

Re: [IRCA] WHP 580 IBOC

2011-04-07 Thread Paul B. Walker, Jr.
The license fee to Ibuiqity for IBOC is the same regardless of how much/how often it's used, I think. Paul On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Tom Dimeo wrote: > Yes Patrick, WHP does use IBOC but only during the day when > the station is nondirectional. The program director told me > it would be

Re: [IRCA] WHP 580 IBOC

2011-04-07 Thread Rene Tetro
I am not intimately acquainted with the operation at WHP, so I will just briefly comment on what I do know. Our general manager at WFIL-WNTP was GM at WHP several years ago, and he explained that WHP is fairly tightly blocked in at night by several stations, both co-channel and adjacent. Among th

Re: [IRCA] WHP 580 IBOC

2011-04-07 Thread Patrick Martin
>>Yes Patrick, WHP does use IBOC but only during the day when the station is nondirectional. The program director told me it would be very expensive to modify the night time directional array for IBOC and I guess Clear Channel didn't think it was worth the cost. If IBOC had become more popular the

Re: [IRCA] WHP 580 IBOC

2011-04-07 Thread Craig Healy
Yes Patrick, WHP does use IBOC but only during the day when the station is nondirectional. The program director told me it would be very expensive to modify the night time directional array for IBOC and I guess Clear Channel didn't think it was worth the cost. If IBOC had become more popular the

Re: [IRCA] WHP 580 IBOC

2011-04-07 Thread Patrick Martin
Craig, Thanks for the clarification. I don't know if anyone has ever asked this or not, but why do some IBOC stations have such a hiss behind their audio and others do not? I have noticed that for a long time. Does the night skip have something to do with it? It is very irritating to listen to the

Re: [IRCA] WHP 580 IBOC

2011-04-08 Thread Craig Healy
Thanks for the clarification. I don't know if anyone has ever asked this or not, but why do some IBOC stations have such a hiss behind their audio and others do not? I have noticed that for a long time. Does the night skip have something to do with it? It is very irritating to listen to these stat

Re: [IRCA] WHP 580 IBOC

2011-04-08 Thread Patrick Martin
>>Hiss behind the audio... Yes, does happen. Some stations have a more correct setup that others. The digital sidebands are sometimes less confined to the correct bandwidths. For example, the 550 station had extra sidebands at 27kHz either side of the 550 spot. While it was within the FCC requireme