[BC] IBOC

[Mike Gideon]

Digital radio on AM is happening today. Once a bunch are on the air, it's 
inevitable

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Harms" <wharms at comcast.net>
To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] IBOC


> Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me that some people think that 
> IBOC on
> the AM band is automatically a inevitable thing. Therefore, we must find a 
> way to do
> it somehow. That could be a flawed way to look at it. The current analog 
> system on
> the AM band works fine for the most part, and really is not broken. There 
> are many
> stations on the air which are getting along fine without it and have not 
> real reason to
> broadcast in digital. Therefore, I don't see the need to forced it on 
> stations which
> don't need it, especially if there is other spectrum available for digital 
> radio use.
> Perhaps there are other places that digital can be placed instead of the 
> AM band and
> it would accomplish the same thing.
>
> No one has convinced me that digital radio on AM is necessarily 
> inevitable.
>
> Bill Harms
>
> On 13 Jul 2005 at 19:39, Mike Gideon wrote:
>
>> We have kicked it around forever. I have never seen any other way.
>
>
>
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