[BC] Interesting IBUZ article & WTWP

[Chuck Lakaytis]

I am sort of amazed by the sudden angry interest in IBOC "hash generators". 
Where have you all been over the last twenty or so years when the manmade 
noise floor increased by many many decibels?  Did anyone demand that the FCC 
regulate lighting devices?  Driven through an intersection lately with LED 
signal lamps?  I lived within a few miles of an AM in Garden City, Kansas. 
I was CE at that facility but could not listen to it at home because of the 
noise from all the electric fences around every winter wheat field.  KBBI in 
Homer, Alaska has a large wielding shop close to the studio that just kills 
reception in the on air monitors.  I see the problem as this:
Too many AM stations
Failure of the FCC to make sure that directional systems are properly 
maintained and operated
Program choices on AM that attract only those demographics that really need 
to get a life.
The absolutely useless NAB that should be doing all it can to stop BPL. 
That will be the real killer of AM.  And lets face it, most people will 
choose more internet service over any of our radio services today.

And maybe most of the young populace simply do not think that traditional 
radio is of any worth to them.  How many Ham Radio clubs are there in High 
Schools these days?  Not many I will bet.  Radio ain't magic anymore, but 
the Internet sure as hell is.

I noticed last week that the real topic of conversation in our office was 
the new wide screen HD TV and the BlueRay player that someone bought.  All 
of the staff children thought that was cool.


And now back to my work installing yet another infernal HD radio station in 
Alaska.  If the cold war starts anew, I will be ready to counter the Russian 
Woodpecker with nine AM HD stations.


Chuck Lakaytis
Director of Engineering
Alaska Public Broadcasting, Inc.
135 Cordova Street
Anchorage, AK 99501
907 277 6300
907 277 6359 FAX
907 301 4339 Cell
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glen Kippel" <glen.kippel at gmail.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] Interesting IBUZ article & WTWP


> Yes, they will be "impressed" enough to decide that AM doesn't work and 
> give
> up listening to the band forever.
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> On 3/17/07, WFIFeng at aol.com <WFIFeng at aol.com> wrote:
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>> Litte by little, more and more people are beginning to see just what kind
>> of
>> "clothes" this emperor is wearing.
>>
>> Someone passed this along to me, and I thought it was interesting:
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>> http://www.eastbayexpress.com/2007-03-07/music/hd-radio-on-the-offense
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>> Also, this morning, for the first time, I heard one of those "Stations
>> between the stations" promos... on WTWP sometime around 6:15am. I had to
>> stifle
>> a
>> laugh.
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>> Once all of those 50KW behemoths light-up their hash generators, everyone
>> (who doesn't realize that a whole new radio is needed) who tries to hear
>> those
>> "stations between..." will just hear hash. (On FM it's a rough razzing
>> sound.)
>> They will be mighty impressed, I'm sure.
>>
>> Willie...
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