[BC] FCC Deletes digital report from today's meeting

[Rich Wood]

------ At 10:25 PM 7/13/2006, Bill Harms wrote: -------

>If this is true, it sounds like someone is coming to their senses.  I
>have advocated from the very beginning of this controversy that more
>testing is needed, especially at night for AM, and that the test
>results must be publically available so that others could see if they
>could replicate the results.

On another list I asked the engineers running IBUZ if they would run 
it 24/7 if the FCC approved it at today's meeting. Not a single 
person responded either way. All the huffing and puffing about IBUZ 
melted away when the risk of dealing with expensive modifications was 
staring them in the face well before there are enough receivers to 
make that risk worth taking. This is a situation that can only be 
fixed, in my opinion, in real life operation, not a laboratory. How 
do you duplicate skywave and individual transmitter site deficiencies in a lab?

The last minute manufacturer FCC filing (July 5) tells me they're 
seriously concerned about losing sales before they're sure they can 
blame the stations rather than the system. With daytime interference 
rearing its ugly head one can only imagine what nighttime operation 
would bring. It was a game of chicken. They blinked.

Haven't they been testing for 12 years?

Rich