[BC] Nighttime AM HD Status

[Rich Wood]

------ At 12:31 AM 10/14/2007, WFIFeng at aol.com wrote: -------

>According to a note from the station manager there, they are getting
>approximately equal IBUZ/Analog coverage. I wonder about the 
>receivers in those cases.

I'd like to know how many receivers they've "inspired" listeners to 
buy. It would seem to me that the $200+ spent on a receiver might be 
subtracted from what they would have contributed. There's nothing 
more to drive it than the claim of "radically" higher quality. When 
stations use hype-laden words like "radical" and "revolution"I get 
very suspicious.

I've never used an IBUZ receiver where the digital and analog 
coverage were equal.

I spent the past few days in Providence, RI. The only station in New 
England with significant IBUZ coverage is WBZ, Boston.  Even then, 
power line interference kills it dead and the digital drops out well 
before the analog is annoying. At night my JVC won't lock onto 
digital where it will during the day. I get a digital indicator on 
WFAN, New York, but no lock. Most New York 50Kw stations are 
receivable in Western MA with listenable signals. I should have been 
able to receive most of them in digital in Providence. The same was 
true on my trip to the tip of Cape Cod. WBZ was the only signal that 
stayed locked most of the time.

Rich

Rich