Yup, Lou, Ihear you!
73 de KB8TYJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: FCC aproves HD A M broadcasting 24 hours a day
> The FCC people that just got paid off. That's who!
> --Lou K2LKK
>
>
>
> At 02:27 PM 8/23/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>> Bob and all:
>>
>>For what it's worth, my two cents worth on the whole thing is that this is
>>really sad.
>>
>>I can't figure out who, other than the marketers of HD radio, are
>>benefitting from this whole thing.
>>
>>Considering the quality of AM radio today, I am not sure the general
>>public
>>will be shouting for joy over this ruling.
>>
>>You just have to wonder who's running the FCC today anyway!
>>
>>I'm all for technological progress, but is this really productive and
>>beneficial to the general public as a whole?
>>
>>73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Bob Tinney" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 12:29 AM
>>Subject: FCC aproves HD A M broadcasting 24 hours a day
>>
>>
>> > Hi,
>> > I know that this topic is not strictly amateur related, but I'll bet
>> > that
>> > 99.9% of us have done a lot of swl work and have listened to dx
>> > stations
>> > on
>> > the A M broadcast band. The days of looking for DX on the A M band may
>> > end
>> > forever on September 14. On that date, the FCC will allow HD stations
>> > to
>> > broadcast 24 hours a day. Below is some quoted material from the Radio
>> > Mag
>> > online.
>> > "FCC Update
>> > FCC logo 1
>> > IBOC Rule Changes Kick in Sept. 14
>> > Publication of the FCC's Second Report and Order in the Federal
>> > Register
>> > on
>> > Aug.
>> > 16 means that the long-awaited IBOC digital radio rule changes will
>> > become
>> > the law
>> > of the land on Sept. 14.
>> > Among the most controversial new provisions will be the green light for
>> > 24-hour HD
>> > Radio hybrid operation on AM. Critics of Ibiquity's implementation of
>> > AM
>> > IBOC digital
>> > transmission have charged that many stations currently serving a
>> > significant
>> > audience
>> > within secondary nighttime coverage areas will lose that service area
>> > to
>> > digitally
>> > generated adjacent-channel interference. In a separate but related move
>> > announced
>> > just this week, the FCC appears to be addressing AM owner coverage
>> > anxieties
>> > by tendering
>> > an NPRM that would grant new FM repeater privileges to eligible AM
>> > licensees.
>> > Among other key provisions set to go into effect include the right for
>> > FMs
>> > to commence
>> > HD Radio multicasting without experimental authority grants and use of
>> > separate FM
>> > antennas for HD Radio hybrid operation without STAs.
>> > Other matters, such as specific public service requirements,
>> > limitations
>> > on
>> > and regulatory
>> > fee assessments for digital subscription services, and what role
>> > multicasting will
>> > play in any new ownership equation remain to be addressed by future
>> > rulemaking.
>> > Bob, [log in to unmask], K8LR
>> > Skype Name: bobtinn
>> > Life is full of challenges, that's what makes it interesting!
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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> Louis Kim Kline
> A.R.S. K2LKK
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