[BC] FCC Deletes digital report from today's meeting

[Steve Newman]

Aren't there just some things that are just not meant to be? Aren't we 
trying to get something out of a medium that is not setup for it? 
Something's rotten in Denmark. I can't believe companies are spending money 
on a thing that doesn't work right. Hey, more power to whomever figures out 
how to make it work correctly with AM but I have a bad feeling about all 
this. Then again, to quote you...there are no known problems with IBUZ.

Steve


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Wood" <richwood at pobox.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] FCC Deletes digital report from today's meeting


> On another list I asked the engineers running IBUZ if they would run it 
> 24/7 if the FCC approved it at today's meeting. Not a single person 
> responded either way. All the huffing and puffing about IBUZ melted away 
> when the risk of dealing with expensive modifications was staring them in 
> the face well before there are enough receivers to make that risk worth 
> taking. This is a situation that can only be fixed, in my opinion, in real 
> life operation, not a laboratory. How do you duplicate skywave and 
> individual transmitter site deficiencies in a lab?
>
> The last minute manufacturer FCC filing (July 5) tells me they're 
> seriously concerned about losing sales before they're sure they can blame 
> the stations rather than the system. With daytime interference rearing its 
> ugly head one can only imagine what nighttime operation would bring. It 
> was a game of chicken. They blinked.
>
> Haven't they been testing for 12 years?
>
> Rich