[BC] HD Alliance

[Cowboy]

On Saturday 14 January 2006 11:13 pm, Robert Meuser wrote:
>
>Rich Wood wrote:
>
>.Of all the engineers here I don't see any who are convinced
>> the adjacent channel destruction can be fixed. 

 Please count me among those who are *not* convinced that it can't !

>Rich:
>
>In some cases you are over stating the problem as interference is outside 
>protected contours.

 While this is the current excuse, it may not be that way forever.
 
>But, I have heard interference pretty early in the afternoon  
>when WHAM is very obviously causing problems with WLIB and this is in Manhattan 
>and well within the WLIB 5 MV/M contour. It is ironic that WLIB's lower daytime 
>power is in part due to protecting WHAM.

 Growing pains.
 Lest we forget, I know of no technology that did not have its share.

 These same arguments could have ( and possibly were ) made about Diesel's
 first internal combustion engines.
 Remember, they ran on coal dust.
 We can make all kinds of arguments about why coal dust is a bad idea.
 It'll never fly.
 The sarcastic and painfully redundant "There are no known problems with coal dust."
 It's too this, or it's too that.
 Yet today, I see no advocates for the tried and true
 external combustion steam engines !
 No, to the contrary, we are still striving to make the internal combustion
 engine better.
 And, we are steady succeeding !

 For me, I see the present incantation of HD/IBOC as the rough equivalent
 of Diesel's coal dust engine.
 It works, but it obviously needs improvement.

 I predict that digital broadcasting will succeed. Maybe in spite of, and
 not because of, *us*, but just like the internal combustion engine, it will
 succeed.
 
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