[BC] Insignia Digital Portable

[Rich Wood]

------ At 10:45 PM 7/16/2009, Scott Fybush wrote: -------

>I disagree. I find Rich to be *very* consistent :-)

I think Chuck was referring to the consistency of the system in this market

>Rochester is not, as Rich alleged, "class C" territory. This is still
>very much B country, and most of ours are textbook Bs, 50 kW ERP/150 m.

Correction. I'm well aware that Rochester is not Class C territory. I 
meant that, according to some cheerleaders here, the signals are 
terrific because of the tower locations relative to the population. 
That would make it very much like the even more perfect Houston 
market, which is Class C and about as flat as the Earth can get.

>Rich will be pleased - or maybe at least surprised - to know that within
>the bowels of our concrete-block studio building, the Insignia couldn't
>hear any of the local HDs. (But neither can anything else, even the
>Sony, and analog reception in interior offices stinks, too.)

Again, from the reports of cheerleaders in your market I would expect 
it to receive everything even in a Faraday cage at NORAD. Since I 
wouldn't expect to receive analog in such a location, receiving 
digital would be worthy of a listing in Ripley's and a flood of 
breathless puff releases from the IBUZ company. According to some of 
the puff releases I've received from them, one would conclude that 
this system solves all FM's problems, cures all infectious diseases 
and receives communications from extraterrestrial life. To bastardize 
Freud, sometimes a radio is just a radio, even if you smoke a cigar 
while listening.

Rich