[BC] Should Skywave Listening protection continue?

[Alan Alsobrook]

Well that's a deep question. As it stands now, if a majority of stations 
turn on IBOC at night and we don't worry about sky wave reception, far 
more reception is going to suffer. This somewhat makes the sky wave 
reception protection a mute point a great deal of ground wave reception 
area will be rendered unusable. The noise floor across the AM band will 
come up and possibly render analog AM unlistenable.

> "Those who want to improve their AM signals with IBOC believe that protecting 
> skywave listening is not as important now as it was years ago, when far fewer 
> stations existed and rural areas in particular were underserved by media."
> 
> Question for debate: Is IBOC worth the sacrifice of skywave listening because 
> skywave listening is no longer as important as it was in the past?
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Alan Alsobrook CSRE CBNT
St. Augustine Fl. 32086 904-829-8885
aalso at Bellsouth.net