HD Radio Boston Area

Garrett Wollman wollman@csail.mit.edu
Fri Oct 13 14:18:21 EDT 2006


<<On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:26:41 -0400, Aaron Read <readaaron@friedbagels.com> said:

> Interference and interactions the 22000 watts ERP would laugh at could 
> severely affect a 220 watt ERP digital signal.  Especially at a distance 
> of 30 miles!

How much processing gain does the OFDM provide in hybrid mode?  A
quick giggle search doesn't reveal any convincing evidence.  (The top
result is a 1995 IEEE paper which says 8 dB, but the system has
changed so much since then that I wouldn't consider it reliable.)

-GAWollman



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