[BC] Supermodulation

[Robert Meuser]

Mark Humphrey wrote:
> These stories about the "supermodulation" wars have
> intrigued me, but the heyday of unregulated positive
> peaks was a bit before my time.... so here's the
> question:  
> 
> Were there actually any confirmed and documented cases
> of harmful interference that resulted from stations
> modulating above 125% positive?  In other words, was a
> new FCC rule really needed to protect innocent
> bystanders?  Or was this, in fact, only a response to
> some politically-connected 50 kW operators crying foul
> because the "hot-rodded" 5 kW guys were beating them
> in loudness?


AFIK it was mostly political ala NAB vs LPFM.

R