[BC] IBOC "secrets" and my opinions.

[Mike McCarthy]

Oh...the emperor has no clothes on this one for certain.  I won't go so far 
as to use the sow's ear analogy as I'm just not seeing even that much of a 
benefit for AM's other than improving the surrounding system for analog and 
giving us static free stereo inside the 2mV contour.  Beyond that, I see 
IBOC as a band crusher at night.  Any TSL a station has overnight will go 
to hell in 2 seconds when the adjacent stations light up and pulverize the 
NIF with a duty cycle the FCC has no idea how to model or consider.

I'm thinking that as soon as some BIG stations loose a PILE of overnight 
TSL (IE...$$$,$$$), a Petition to Reconsider will be filed in DC and 
lawsuits will be flying in to every US District Court seeking an injunction 
to stop night operation.  In this case, the clears and graveyarders will 
lead the way as they collectively have the most to loose. Especially those 
on 1230 and 1240 which historically are terribly short spaced to begin with.

MM

At 08:34 PM 3/25/2007 -0400, Bill Harms wrote
>Frank/Mike:
>
>Maybe a better fitting analogy is making a silk purse out of a sow's ear. 
>Maybe the emperor has no clothes. Something to consider.
>
>Bill Harms
>>
>>
>>So...for the moment, we need to deal with this basket of lemon's and 
>>squeeze as much as we can out each any every one....