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[Robert Meuser]

Phil

There you go again with your defeatist engineering.  A number of the NRSC 
members do not believe in NRSC 5 and are working on something better. Put out 
something today to meet a short term objective and turn around and then go in a 
different direction. There are different layers of politics. You spend too much 
time believing in the obvious.

R

Phil Alexander wrote:
> On 2 Jun 2006 at 15:06, Barry McLarnon wrote:
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>> IBOC is like a drug that got conditional approval from the FDA on the basis 
>> of data submitted by the manufacturer.  Subsequent clinical trials with 
>> unbiased observers, however, have shown that the drug has severe side 
>> effects, including many probable fatalities, that the manufacturer had 
>> assured us would be inconsequential.  Turns out that the cure is much 
>> worse than the disease.  The obvious next step should be to pull the drug 
>> off the market.  Unfortunately, a few folks have already become addicted 
>> to the drug, but they'll get over it, and eventually find something better 
>> that doesn't have the vicious side effects (like the buzzing it causes in 
>> your ears).
>>
>> The bitter pill called AM IBOC may be harder to get rid of, since the "FDA" 
>> in this case won't listen to reason, but it's still worth the effort.
> 
> Barry, Barry, Barry, there you go again, trying to apply good technical 
> sense and logic to a problem dictated by politics and money. <g>
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> Sad to say, IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN. And the reason is a large number of
> qualified people say those who oppose are over-reacting to what they
> claim are not substantial problems. They are called the members of the
> NRSC who drafted and approved NRSC-5.
> 
> There will be no opening for further technical discussion. IT IS OVER.
> However, there will be another time if those of us who see very serious
> problems are correct. However, when that time comes, the pressure will
> be for a de facto analog sunset by INCREASING digital power IMHO.
> 
> Analog was shot dead the day USADR bought Lucent DR, but it hasn't 
> stopped kicking yet.
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> Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD
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