[BC] AM Stereo On A Mono Radio

[Cowboy]

On Wednesday 03 October 2007 01:39 am, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:
>  Ok, so I'm currently having some "arguments" with a few radio friends of
>  mine, some station owners (with minor technical background) and some long
>  time engineers.
>  
>  If WABV were to go solid state, install an AM Stereo exciter and AM Strereo
>  audio processor, would we sound better even on a mono radio? Would we los
>  any range.

 Maybe, and no.

 Based on the filings I see, simply getting back to full licensed power
 would be a big plus.
 The balance depends on what it sounds like now, and on what receiver.

 This has nothing to do with stereo, by the way, but is much more dependent
 on the bandwidth of the system, and the utilization of that bandwidth.
 Whether AM Stereo, or HD/IBOC, make it play right in mono first.
 If your objective is good mono, you can stop there.
 A decent transmitter, decent processor, and a proper symmetrical load
 is required for any of the above.
 Once you achieve that, in my opinion stereo would be a waste of money,
 neither gaining, nor losing, anything.

-- 
Cowboy