[BC] to the editor of the NY Times

[Randy Moore]

Clive,

This web site, http://www.nevada-radios.co.uk/ seems to have lots of 
portable and hand held DAB radios.

Randy Moore
AI4CO


Clive Warner wrote:

>If you don't agree with the comments in the NY Times then why don't you
>write to them like I just did.
>Perhaps if enough mail arrives from engineers they might take note.
>- Clive.
>Copy below:
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>FOR PUBLICATION
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>Sir -
>
>The piece "revolution on the radio" is puffery rather than egineering fact.
>
>"HD radio" is all about the rich stations getting richer, and to hell with
>the 'mom and pop' stations.
>
>Ibiquity is locking the US broadcasting system into a monopoly controlled by
>themselves (they are the only company with the rights and knowledge of a
>propietary 'codec' used for transmission). It's as if Microsoft were given
>the sole right to supply computers to the US.
>
>Thomas R. Ray III, director of engineering for Buckley Broadcasting, is
>quoted:
>" In AM, this avoids having signals fade in short tunnels and will prevent
>noise from electrical motors. It gets rid of the majority of problems with
>AM radio."
>
>In AM the situation caused by so-called 'HD' radio is appalling. Every
>station that adopts this system immediately wipes out a good portion of
>neighbor stations reception areas due to the horrible 'buzz saw' noise that
>IBOC (HD) creates in adjacent channels. Night-time reception will become
>unusable.
>
>Next, the radios. There are hardly any in existence. And even those that
>exist cost a fortune. A minimum price of $259 for a radio? No thanks. I'd
>rather buy an iPod and an iTrip and have change left over, AND be able to
>play what I want, when I want, rather than listen to someone else's tiny
>restricted playlist with guaranteed-no-naughty-words.
>
>Even in Europe where digital radio broadcasting (DAB) has been around for
>quite a while, there are no portable receivers. This is because digital
>receivers require chips that consume lots of power  - far too much power for
>battery-operated devices. So those people who enjoy being able to listen to
>the radio on portable devices will turn to iPods and the like. Radio
>audiences will decline even further.
>
>Radio listeners have been deserting the medium because of poor programmes,
>often originated from 'voicetracked' studios hundreds of miles away. They're
>sick of the blocks of advertising, the restricted playlists, the payola.
>'HD' will be the final nail in radio's coffin.
>
>-( Clive)
>
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