[BC] Digital Coverage

[Rich Wood]

------ At 04:37 PM 12/23/2005, Reader wrote: -------

>So, unless the IBOC side of receivers become far more multipath proof,
>there will always be a need for analog fallback with time diversity!
>Ironically, without the analog sidebands the digital side could be
>expanded to include sufficient interleaved redundant symbols to provide
>its own time diversity.

Whoa! I thought IBUZ was supposed to eliminate multipath. Are you 
telling us that multipath eliminates IBUZ? It's beginning to sound 
like the efforts to cover up insufficient signal levels are worse 
than the analog problems IBUZ is designed to eliminate.

My objection to IBUZ has been with AM because of my belief that a 
station has no right to its neighbor's turf. Now it's becoming clear 
that similar problems exist with FM.

Waiting for analog to go away so these problems disappear won't work. 
Your audience will be gone well before that happens.

Rich


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