[BC] HD Alliance

[Robert Meuser]

It can be done if the expectation is different.

R


DANA PUOPOLO wrote:

>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
>
>------ Original Message ------
>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:
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>>Rich Wood wrote:
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>>.Of all the engineers here I don't see any who are convinced
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>>>the adjacent channel destruction can be fixed. 
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> Please count me among those who are *not* convinced that it can't !
>
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>>Rich:
>>
>>In some cases you are over stating the problem as interference is outside 
>>protected contours.
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>
> While this is the current excuse, it may not be that way forever.
> 
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>>But, I have heard interference pretty early in the afternoon  
>>when WHAM is very obviously causing problems with WLIB and this is in
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>Manhattan 
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>>and well within the WLIB 5 MV/M contour. It is ironic that WLIB's lower
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>daytime 
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>>power is in part due to protecting WHAM.
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>
> 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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