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

[Mike McCarthy]

In an analog world where the D/U ratio is something like 40dB, your 
argument is correct.  In a digital world, the D/U ratio could be as little 
as 6 dB and there would be no problem receiving/decoding the signal. I can 
see where a NUMBER of arrays would be able to go omni with digital...day 
AND night..

NOTE...I'm not suggesting Ibiquity's system is the one which I 
like/prefer.  Only that in a truly digital world (DRM and digital only 
Ibiquity), the digitial coding masks all of the undesirable attributes of 
skywave interference where the desired signal has some level of greater 
level than the undesired.

MM

At 12:36 AM 7/15/2006 -0500, Stan Tacker wrote
>There are still many markets where an AM is the highest rated station.  The
>proposition that no one listens to AM anymore is not supportable.
>
>What really begs the question on the whole issue is this...every bit of
>additional energy added to the band at night raises the noise floor for that
>frequency.  You may not care if you can't hear a local station beyond it's
>ground wave limits...but IBOC operation on that frequency and its first and
>second adjacent channels raises the interference level for everyone in that
>station's "nighttime universe."
>
>Apply the existing RSS rules for night time allocation and iBiquity's IBOC
>doesn't fly.
>
>
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>In a message dated 07/14/2006 5:05:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>SBailey at nespower.com writes:
>
> > Once again, looking outside to the average listening who works outside
> >  the broadcast industry or hobbyist, they could care less about
> >  AM...PERIOD! I read where WGN claims they have all these listeners at
> >  night outside Chicago. That's bull crap! When IBOC really kicks in at
> >  night, there won't be a sole to hear it outside Chicago anyway.
>
>Now this begs the question... if IBUZ does go into effect at night, then why
>
>not give us Daytimers full day power 24/7? If skywave listening is all but
>dead, why not? Let us continue to serve our local markets full time.
>
>However, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss WGN's night listenership that
>easily... especially if those listeners have, indeed, filled-out Arbitron
>diaries.
>
>Willie...
>
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