[BC] AM Interference

[Bill Harms]

My suggestion is to open up a another piece of spectrum for digital 
broadcasting and leave the current AM band alone for now.  Doing this 
and allowing current broadcasters to dual-broadcast would make it 
possible for a transition and allow the current AM band to slowly 
empty.  The AM could then be allowed to be what is it best at and 
that is long distance transmissions, especially at night.  The band 
would be less cluttered. 

I know that this proposal has been turned down in the past mostly for 
political and presumed economical reasons, but the money that would 
be used for transistioning to IBAC/IBOC could be used for the new 
band instead and the economic impact would be a net zero. 

As far as the political ramifications, I am not exactly why those 
concerns exist, but maybe it is time to revisit this discussion 
before too much more effort and resources are put into AM band IBOC.

Bill Harms


On 16 Dec 2005 at 16:41, Rich Wood wrote:

> If they're willing to push it, I'm asking what can be done,
> technically, to allow them to continue?