If I throw my AM radios away, it sure won't be in favor of buying a new one, 
that's for sure.
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From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: [NYDXA-List] FCC Approves IBOC Go Ahead


> Yes, but since the FCC has been in bed with big money interests for quite 
> a
> while, it was predictable.  They don't care if the band sounds like crap
> (which it already does, anyway).  At least they haven't decided that in 
> two
> or three years, you'll have to throw away every radio that you have and go
> digital, although I suspect that at some point not too far off they will
> start requiring all new radios to be digital capable.
>
> On the other hand, it will be interesting to see what skywave and nightime
> selective fading does to their nice digital signals.  I suspect that even
> for the 50kw stations, at the upper end of the band, nightime digital will
> be fairly unusable at distances greater than 30 miles because the signals
> will just periodically break up from propagation fades and other such
> aberrations.  It will probably be much less of a problem at the bottom end
> of the band.
>
> I am basing this on the observation that even in their primary loab, WWKB
> starts to show major significant selective fading effects at night at 
> about
> 30 miles, which is tolerable on a analog signal, but I bet it won't fly on
> digital!
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>
>
>
> At 08:32 PM 4/4/2007 -0600, you wrote:
>>Crap.  What a bummer.  That's all I need.
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