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

[Broadcast List USER]

I have written about this, mostly as an aside, and ever as well as you  
did on this topic, Dana.

I was the DoE for Radio Ventures.  We were a venture trial by the  
Carlyle Group, the private investment bank often called a defense  
contractor, which it is not.

We owned WXTR, XTRA-104 in Waldorf, MD.  I had an "area to locate"  
study done for the station.  It was short spaced in every direction.   
It could not be built today.  After that, I had "area to locate"  
studies done on about two dozen Washington, DC stations.  Nearly NONE  
of them could be built today.  It seems that nearly every DC station  
was low powered, and when the classes were made into a rule, most  
stations went up to Class B, and signed mutual interference agreements  
with the station they had to.  In some cases, they paid for the more  
minor markets to upgrade in order for them to sign.  I worked for  
another station that paid for stations two states away to upgrade so  
they would sign.  Everyone in DC wanted to be a Full-B.

I never researched it, but I am sure NYC, Philadelphia and Boston had  
the same issues.  The entire NE US is short spaced.  The same for  
Chicago and Southern California.  Basically, most of the Class B areas  
of the country are full of short spaced stations, which is why they  
didn't get clobbered by 80-90 drop-ins.

In such an enviornment, IBOC causes a huge amount of havoc, which is  
why I lost all of the distant Reserved Band FMs of which I used to  
listen.

Jeff, you may not think this is a big deal, and from where you live it  
may not be, but in the highly populated areas, it really is a problem.

Why shouldn't I be able to listen to Baltimore FMs, many less than 40  
miles from my home?  I used to be able to hear them.  I have a great  
receiver, a Yahama T-7, mesh tuned analog tuner.

--chip

On Feb 2, 2010, at 12:48 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 21
> From: "Dana  Puopolo" <dpuopolo at usa.net>
>
> Jeff, in the fully spaced FM world YOU live in that might well be  
> true-but
> here in the REAL world we have FULL class B non-directional stations  
> on
> adjacent channels that are spaced 30-50 miles apart. We have class  
> As on
> second adjacents in the same market-with 100% city grade overlaps.  
> We have
> full class Bs on third adjacents in the same market-again with 100%  
> city grade
> overlap. No, these stations are NOT co-located either!
>
> THIS is the REAL world, Jeff-not some perfectly spaced place like  
> Vegas or a
> coax cable in a lab. IBOC does not work in MY real world, Jeff. Not  
> at all! It
> TRASHES my real world!
>
> -D
>
> ------ At 01:14 PM 2/1/2010, Jeff Glass wrote: -------
>
>> 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.