[BC] IBOC "secrets" and my opinions.

[Robert Orban]

At 06:53 AM 4/20/2007, you wrote:
>Wasn't this the objective of "AMAX"?
>
>I recall that Jerry Lee, owner of WBEB here in Philadelphia and
>influential NAB board member, encouraged the broadcast industry to
>fund development of an affordable high-performance AM/FM receiver
>about 20 years ago.  He also owned WFIL at that time,  wanted to do
>something to enhance the quality of AM audio, and realized that there
>was much room for improvement of receivers.  Dick Sequerra, who had
>designed fixed-tuned FM radios for Jerry, was recommended as a
>consultant.  I don't remember the original name of his initiative, but
>it later evolved into AMAX.  Who remembers more about this?

I think there was a Denon AMAX tuner that was fully compliant. Delco was 
building AM stereo  radios that were almost to the AMAX standard except for 
a slightly lower audio bandwidth (around 6 kHz or so, IIRC). There may have 
been others, but I don't recall them.

Bob Orban