[BC] More important: the Nighttime Answer

[Rich Wood]

------ At 08:34 PM 11/14/2005, DHultsman5 at aol.com wrote: -------

>  I do agree  lets get it on and allow all stations to operate  nighttime
>IBOC.  Some stations may have to buy it IBOC to have a 
>few  listeners after the
>radios get into the market place.  The FCC and the  amount of 
>interference will
>push a decision much quicker if we go ahead and get  it over,  turn it on.

How can we do it? Clearly it's going to be the system even if the FCC 
can't mandate it and create a monopoly. You must have some experience 
with FCC type acceptance red tape. What will it take for us to get 
them to authorize nighttime operation and get the ball rolling? The 
dramatic quality improvement isn't on FM. It's a properly processed 
AM. WBZ sounded wonderfully natural, except for agency equalized 
spots. Those spots sound lousy even on a lousily engineered analog 
AM. Clearly processing is the critical part. Bad processing makes bad 
analog FM far worse in digital.

When there are 5000 stations competing for engineers to correct 
interference problems created by them or victimizing the it's going 
to be a nightmare that balloons. Right now there are only a few of 
the 460 listed stations on AM. Time to fix one at a time.

The FCC should give priority to those stations that fix the problem 
first, not the ones who come late and demand changes to those already 
fixed. Otherwise, one station might have to change multiple times as 
new stations light up. A new world.

Rich


Rich Wood
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