[BC] AM Stereo

[Jerry Mathis]

Chip what you just wrote is almost exactly how I feel about what happened. Thanks for the backup!
 
To clarify your ending point, It was not my intention to challenge the writings of Bob or Barry. Honestly, I've never read Bob's writings about NRSC--I was going, as Will Rogers used to say, by what I read in the newspapers; thus I got the condensed version. I am obviously lacking in the information I could have gathered from reading it all.
   If I've appeared arrogant in my posts, it wasn't intentional, and certainly wasn't meant to be towards Bob or Barry, both of whom have made TREMENDOUS contributions to our industry, and whom I highly respect. Now I DO plead guilty to being BOLD  :)  Nothing ever changes for or benefits the timid!
 
--
Jerry Mathis

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Broadcast List USER <Broadcast at fetrow.org> wrote:
>Jerry:

>Barry is completely right, and I would not have clipped so much,
>except that the filter would have gotten me.

>The FCC did not write receiver standards.  They could have and should
>have.

>The broadcasters were FORCED to comply with NRSC, and other standards,
>but the FCC has NEVER written a receiver standard.

>If they had, we would have had a working interoperability like FM pre-
>emphisis and de-emphisis.

><snip> You really need to read what Bob Orban has written in this thread, but
>also what he has written in years gone by.

>>snip> Then again, could AM Stereo save AM?  Not a chance.  At best, it could
>have pushed back the decline a few years at best.

>Could better fidelity have helped?  You bet.  It could, even today.

>The FCC should have never allowed the additional stations, and should
>have allowed the unprofitable to fail.  That culling of the herd
>should allow the remaining stations more power, and better frequency
>response.

>Oh, well.

>I have to say that questioning the writings of folks like Bob Orban
>and Barry Mishkind is pretty bold, and pretty arrogant.  You can do
>it, but you really need the data to back it up.

><snip>
 
>--chip