[BC] HD Alliance

[DANA PUOPOLO]

Uhm, Cowboy...

The only way to FIX an interfering emission ON YOUR FREQUENCY is to ELIMINATE
IT!

Please explain to me how to eliminate the IBOC carrier while simultaneously
keeping it there!

If you can, you are a true genius

-D

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Received: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 08:13:25 AM PST
From: Cowboy <curt at spam-o-matic.net>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] HD Alliance

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.
 
-- 
Cowboy

http://cowboys.homeip.net

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your
editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
		-- Mark Twain


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