[BC] IBOC Query

[John Buffaloe]

>Why is a new transmitter required? I visited an IBUZ station 
>yesterday and they use one transmitter. It may be a better approach 
>to separate transmitters and antennas, but you're talking about 
>significantly more money above the significant money a basic 
>installation costs.

   
  Rich,
   
  In most cases you can't do that, unless you're willing to pay Nautel an enormous sum to have a one box solution, which is actually the best way to go in my very humble opinion.  (unlike yours)  Continental has an interesting mod to their transmitters that allows for a one box IBUZ, but only if the head room is available, and in most cases it isn't.  There seems to be a concensus of how to do IBUZ, and it is usually high level.  For those that have the vertical real estate to do a seperate antenna, that is in my mind the best alternative, but it does require a seperate transmitter.  The other methods of producing IBUZ have their drawbacks as well.  This is not an easy system to get airborne, and I still don't understand the concept of competing with technology instead of content.  But the folks with the ties and business suits seem intent on going this direction.
   
  John Buffaloe
  Once again a gentleman of leisure

		
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