[BC] IBOC Query

[Robert Meuser]

Phil Alexander wrote:

>
>In the 2000 census the average number of persons per household was 2.66,
>not four. Suppose there are two occupied bedrooms, on average, and a
>kitchen. 
>
Bedrooms do not have to be occupied to have a radio. You left out the 
living room and den or rec room. Patio? Shower? Portables? Door intercom 
system?  As I said, I have 10 radios not business or hobby related. Just 
plain old clock radios, cheapo battery radios, the usual. There are 2 
occupants in our house. I also have an IBOC, 2 DRM, 3 shortwave 
receivers and a soft radio plus XM and Sirius but that is business or 
hobby related.

I think around 10 to 12  radios per household is still the number. If 
there are 100 million households, that's a billion before you take 
vehicles into account.


>That's three radios plus two in cars, or looking at it another
>way 330 million radios in households and 220 million in vehicles for
>a total of 550 million radios. If we add an average of one boom box
>or other radio per household that is about 660 million, or three times
>the number of registered vehicles. Call it 750 million to be generous,
>it is only half the 1.5 billion number that gets thrown about.
>  
>
Depnds on how you count. I am more inclined to go in Rich's direction.

R