1410 vs WKOX 1430 AM HD intereference

[John Mullaney]

I actually love it and think it works pretty good. Both Mia and BZ almost sound like FM stations on my car radio. I can drive right from Newton through downtown Boston listening to MIa and not hear a touch of interference. I would never listen to AM without HD. I was always a complete FM listener till HD radio. I think it's the only thing that can save the AM dial. In fact they probably should go with only digital transmissions on AM and get rid of Analog. AMs are dying and DXers aren't going to save it. It needs to sound more like FM. The iPod generation doesn't need fm but they need something better than what AM brings them.

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> On Jun 19, 2015, at 1:45 PM, M.Casey <map@mapinternet.com> wrote:
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> The FCC should realize that AM HD is mostly a failure and will be mostly a failure in the future. The sound is very good, but only when the signal is good and there's not a noisy computer or other interference source in the area.  It drops out when any kind of noise is encountered, and that's just the location when the listener really needs the noise-free digital signal--  so any interference areas are a lose-lose situation for AM HD. Hardly any listeners are using it. One reason for the low amount of listeners is the way the (HD) Market has formed in the last few years shows that many, maybe most, of those AM HD stations ALSO have their signal on a -2 or -3 channel of an FM HD station, so, even given the FM HD coverage limitations, with the lack of robustness in AM HD's ability to handle local noise, most listeners will choose the FM HD-2 or -3 signal over the AM HD one. And, as demonstrated in Boston, many listeners of adjacent and second adjacent channel stations are affected negatively. It would not be a bad thing if the FCC gave a year or 2 for current AM HD's to be turned off and turned off sooner if provable interference complaints within reasonable service contours of those adjacent stations are on record.
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> FM HD shows different and much more positive results. I really hope it succeeds. Some of the early home recievers were not very robust, but my 2014 Subaru HD car radio really works superb. Even with the limited coverage, it works much better than I expected. If every, or nearly every new car came with an FM HD radio, that would probably assure success.
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> Mark
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> -----Original Message----- From: Rob Landry
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 4:00 PM
> To: eli@wmbr.org
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
> Subject: Re: Rush and talk to WKOX 1430?
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> I just got a report that the !@#$%& IBOC is back on.
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> The person at the FCC who thought this was a good idea should be roasted
> over a slow fire.
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> 
> Rob
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