[BC] HD Alliance

[Robert Meuser]

Cowboy

You just penned a bloated contradiction.  Where do you stand??


R

Cowboy wrote:
> 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.
>