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

[Robert Meuser]

Mike

The D/U for digital (any flavor) is around 16 - 17 db.

R

Mike McCarthy wrote:
> In an analog world where the D/U ratio is something like 40dB, your 
> argument is correct.  In a digital world, the D/U ratio could be as 
> little as 6 dB and there would be no problem receiving/decoding the 
> signal. I can see where a NUMBER of arrays would be able to go omni with 
> digital...day AND night..
> 
> NOTE...I'm not suggesting Ibiquity's system is the one which I 
> like/prefer.  Only that in a truly digital world (DRM and digital only 
> Ibiquity), the digitial coding masks all of the undesirable attributes 
> of skywave interference where the desired signal has some level of 
> greater level than the undesired.
> 
> MM
> 
> At 12:36 AM 7/15/2006 -0500, Stan Tacker wrote
>> There are still many markets where an AM is the highest rated 
>> station.  The
>> proposition that no one listens to AM anymore is not supportable.
>>
>> What really begs the question on the whole issue is this...every bit of
>> additional energy added to the band at night raises the noise floor 
>> for that
>> frequency.  You may not care if you can't hear a local station beyond 
>> it's
>> ground wave limits...but IBOC operation on that frequency and its 
>> first and
>> second adjacent channels raises the interference level for everyone in 
>> that
>> station's "nighttime universe."
>>
>> Apply the existing RSS rules for night time allocation and iBiquity's 
>> IBOC
>> doesn't fly.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
>> [mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of WFIFeng at aol.com
>> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 7:23 PM
>> To: broadcast at radiolists.net
>> Subject: Re: [BC] FCC Deletes digital report from today's meeting
>>
>> In a message dated 07/14/2006 5:05:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>> SBailey at nespower.com writes:
>>
>> > Once again, looking outside to the average listening who works outside
>> >  the broadcast industry or hobbyist, they could care less about
>> >  AM...PERIOD! I read where WGN claims they have all these listeners at
>> >  night outside Chicago. That's bull crap! When IBOC really kicks in at
>> >  night, there won't be a sole to hear it outside Chicago anyway.
>>
>> Now this begs the question... if IBUZ does go into effect at night, 
>> then why
>>
>> not give us Daytimers full day power 24/7? If skywave listening is all 
>> but
>> dead, why not? Let us continue to serve our local markets full time.
>>
>> However, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss WGN's night listenership that
>> easily... especially if those listeners have, indeed, filled-out Arbitron
>> diaries.
>>
>> Willie...
>>
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