[BC] Wow, I wonder if y ou feel the same way about AM?

[Broadcast List USER]

Yep, I agree, I used to listen to stations beyond there coverage  
area.  Having it interfered with by IBOC is probibally not important.   
Or, is it?

Compare my loss of stations to the usefullness of the IBOC  
transmissions.

NOBODY is listening to IBOC.  Frankly, NOBODY.

I, and many other people with yagis on rotors on our roofs used to  
listen to distant FM, and we cannot anymore, due to IBOC.  Tell me how  
IBOC is good?

Even with my very large yagi at 35 feet, I cannot hear ANY IBOC.  Yet,  
before IBOC, I used to listen to FM stations 180 miles away, and I  
cannot do that today.

Tell me how that is any kind of improvement!

I am all for technology, but this is one technology that enriches only  
one company, and is hurting broadcasting.

--chipo

On Feb 1, 2010, at 1:20 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 31
> From: Jeff Glass <Xmitters at aol.com>
>
> In a message dated 2/1/2010 8:00:35 AM Central Standard Time, broadcast-request at radiolists.net 
>  writes:
>
>> OK, FINE, I am NOT in the listening areas of those stations.   
>> However,
>> from my home in Northern Virginia, I could listen to distant  
>> Maryland,
>> West Virginia, and RIchmond, VA area stations.  No longer.  CPB has
>> funded most or all National People's Radio stations to go to IBOC.
>> The grass has kept me from being able to hear most of the dozen or
>> more stations I used to listen to.
>
> Chip:
>
> The territories being eaten up by the IBOC sidebands is territory  
> that the FCC never really promised us in the first place.  In many  
> cases, listeners beyond the protected contour do not advertise (or  
> donate if you are NCE) and therefore, don't have a financial impact  
> on the station. Obviously, there are exceptions to this. IBOC is  
> causing LEGAL interference.
>
> The broadcasters pushed for an In Band type of system. To do that,  
> something has to give. I never would have thought in a megayear,  
> that PDs GMs, etc., would have been OK with any plan that meant  
> giving up coverage. But they did.
>
> Jeff Glass
> Northern Illinois University
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