[BC] ABC/Citadel To Suspend IBOC on AM Stations?

Barry McLarnon bdm at bdmcomm.ca
Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CDT 2007


On Tuesday 02 October 2007 17:16, Craig Bowman wrote:
> Funny you should mention this.  My first late night / early morning
> drive was from my home near Flint, MI to Luddington, MI.  I was
> listening to WJR and it was nearly un-listenable in Lansing!  My wife
> commented on the static and I mentioned that it would be nothing
> compared to this....and WABC was clear as a bell.  Apparently WABC was
> running the Virus and WJR was not.  So, 50 miles from the 50kW great
> voice of the great lakes I had to listen to WABC.

As I predicted, back in August:
http://www.broadcast.net/pipermail/radio-tech/2007-August/181673.html

However, a noted authority on AM IBOC has stated that my posts are laced with 
lies and malarkey, so you must have been mistaken in what you thought you 
heard.

But wait, now both WJR and WABC have stopped running digital at night...
whatever could this mean?

Barry

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Barry McLarnon  VE3JF  Ottawa, ON



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