[BC] NYC IBUZ on 660-880

[Rich Wood]

------ At 05:02 PM 6/25/2006, Mark Humphrey wrote: -------

>So far, my drive tests with the JVC have shown that a predicted field
>strength of 10 mV/m (6 dB higher than "city-grade") is necessary for
>better than 50 percent AM digital coverage while driving roads with
>overhead power lines.   Maybe the HD Alliance needs to undertake a
>fundraising campaign to pay the utilities to replace those leaky
>insulators!    In quiet areas, around 5 mV/m is sufficient, unless
>there's a thunderstorm within 20 miles.  Frequent static crashes wreak
>total havoc on the decoding process.

Pardon me if this seems naive but I thought IBUZ was supposed to 
eliminate all that stuff and bring us pristine almost-kinda-nearly FM 
quality AM. I noticed problems with FM IBUZ when signal levels 
dropped. Lots of mode switching in this mountainous terrain. If all 
the static went away wouldn't most of AM's analog problems go with 
it. What does a station gain by spending $100,000 or so to fix their 
site only to have the same result at the listener end?

Rich