[BC] IBOC nightmares (WAS:Daylight Savings...)

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In a message dated 07/22/2005 8:48:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
bdm at bdmcomm.ca writes:

> Maybe neither station cares about those listeners in the boonies, but 
>  consider a station like WSM-650, which has a big skywave audience. 
>  If, say, WFAN fires up IBOC at night on 660, a whole lotta Grand Ole Opry 
>  fans will be having fits...

And they would be well within their rights to do so... and maybe, just maybe, 
enough of them will make a big enough stink, contact their Congresspersons, 
and who knows... maybe this horribly flawed AM IBOC (It Bothers Other Channels) 
thing will be axed before it gets any worse. We can dream, right?

As for trying to pick up WSM, WFAN's analog signal makes that nigh 
impossible, anyway. I can tell that they are there if I listen to them on lower 
sideband, but that's barely listenable.

WOR's analog signal is only a fraction of WFAN's up this way, yet their hash 
generator is extremely noticable. If WFAN fires one up, that's going to make a 
really big mess. No hope for WSM, then, even on a LSB receiver.

Willie...