[BC] HD AM radio versus AM Stereo

[Steve]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DANA PUOPOLO" <dpuopolo at usa.net>
To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] HD AM radio versus AM Stereo

Nope!

>> By far the best FM stereo system was an FM on FM system (Crosley?).
>> It only degraded the s/n by 6 db (as opposed to the 23 db degradation the
one
>> we have does). Its only problem was that it was incompatible with SCA's,
and
>> the industry wanted that $$$ at the time.

>> America's broadcast record of screwing up everything technical is
>> unblemished!

Oh..Ok. I stand corrected. I couldn't remember if there was a faux-pas on
that one or not. Then once again we shot ourselves in the foot. Gotta have
those subcarriers. Now most stations WON'T use them because they won't
sacrifice that modulation. Wow, now that I dig deep into my memory banks
it's amazing we had 70db s/n on KSFR in 1962!

Steve