[BC] IBOC Query

[Mark Humphrey]

I found an "official" UN statistic (on the Boston University website) that
claims 2116 receivers in use per 1000 US inhabitants in 1997.  As expected,
this is by far the highest set penetration in the world.  Several African
nations have numbers less than 100.

http://humandevelopment.bu.edu/dev_indicators/show_info.cfm?index_id=1120&data_type=1

Multiply by a US population of roughly 300 million (over that if you count
illegal aliens) and you get 635 million receivers... so Rich's original
number of 1.5 billion was only off by 3.7 dB.


Mark


On 2/3/06, Rich Wood <richwood at pobox.com> wrote:
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> ------ At 04:44 PM 2/2/2006, Phil Alexander wrote: -------
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> >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. 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.
>
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