[BC] Can traditional AM and IBOC co-exist?

[Neal Newman]

 I have a Ford F150 van. it came with an AM stereo radio This was Before 
I was CE of an AM Stereo station.
In this past year I have rented several Ford Vehicles from Hertz.. They 
all had AM stereo radios In them
 go Figure.

CBoone wrote:

>Ask anyone at ANY dealership about AM Stereo and you will get just as many
>blank stares.
>My Ford E350 van doesn't have it......neither does any of the F150 or 250s
>my company buys...
>So just because one model has an AM Stereo rcvr in it, this is a reason to
>keep AM Stereo? Personally, I am a supporter of AM Stereo, but let's look at
>it realistically..If I had a AM station, I would probably put stereo on it
>rather than IBOC (that's for sure!) BUT no matter what, AM stereo is pretty
>much over ..the buzz word is IBOC (I can think of another 4 letter word that
>better describes it!)
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net 
>>[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Kevin Tekel
>>Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 9:09 PM
>>To: broadcast at radiolists.net
>>Subject: [BC] Can traditional AM and IBOC co-exist?
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>>"Reader" wrote:
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>>>Since AM stereo is all but dead, why not have the FCC 
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>>invite IBOC only 
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>>>operation above 1600? Non-directional.
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>>Two points:
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>>1. Based on the number of stations on the air and the number 
>>of receivers in the marketplace, AM IBOC is much more "dead" 
>>than AM Stereo is.  Ford will be happy to sell you a brand 
>>new 2005 Mustang with an AM Stereo- equipped receiver in the 
>>dashboard, but ask for one with an HD Radio- equipped 
>>receiver and you'll just get a blank stare.
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>>2. The Expanded Band is skywave land.  I've gotten strong 
>>skywave DX in the Expanded Band even during broad, sunny 
>>daylight.  And we all know IBOC and skywaves don't mix.  
>>Therefore, using IBOC in the Expanded Band could make things 
>>very, very messy: it won't help to improve these stations' 
>>already poor local groundwave coverage, but it will spew out 
>>enough adjacent-channel hash to ruin the local groundwave 
>>reception of stations hundreds of miles away -- even during 
>>daytime hours!
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