SO SHOULD WE DRINK BEER OR SCOTCH TO CELEBRATE THE DEMISE OF HD-AM?

[Savage]

...and which brands are preferred by posters here?

I actually think this is a far more germane topic for this board, considering that HD-AM stations are approaching the 200-mark - down from 290 just three years ago.

 

[kenglish]

I'd have thought "Kool-Aid" would be one of the choices .

 

[rbrucecarter5]

...and which brands are preferred by posters here?

I actually think this is a far more germane topic for this board, considering that HD-AM stations are approaching the 200-mark - down from 290 just three years ago.

Wishful thinking at this point. There are probably a few dozen stations that will jealously guard their stereo musical beds and wideband talk audio until the regulators pry the HD encoder controls out of their cold dead hands. Unfortunately those are the stations that comprise our superpower blasters, so a few stations do a lot of damage.

As for what drink - make it a very strong one, because you need to be rip-roaring drunk to actually listen to the compressed audio artifacts on an HD-AM station. Try it sober and the audio will literally make you sick. Of course so will the hangover. Personally, I rather listen to a graveyard frequency at night in a city with no local on the frequency than listen to HD-AM. It would be less fatiguing. If I was drunk enough, I might even discern sense out of the clutter of 100 stations on the channel. Either way, it is more pleasant to the ears than HD-AM, but then fingernails on a blackboard is also more pleasant to the ears than HD-AM.

 

[Carmine5]

Wild Turkey I think best describes IBOC.

 

[Savage]

Looks like Cheap Channel in particular is turning off their IBOC hashmakers more and more these days, hence the drop in HD-AM pop-count recently. Consult the McLarnon site and observe the green spreading all over the pages...

Being a local biz booster, I plan to enjoy Rochester's Genny Cream Ale.

 

[Ken Tucky]

Looks like Cheap Channel in particular is turning off their IBOC hashmakers more and more these days, hence the drop in HD-AM pop-count recently. Consult the McLarnon site and observe the green spreading all over the pages...

Being a local biz booster, I plan to enjoy Rochester's Genny Cream Ale.

Genny Cream Ale - NOW you're talking!!!

 

[KeithE4]

Wild Turkey I think best describes IBOC.

"Rot-gut" is also a good description for it. ;D

 

[landtuna]

Being a local biz booster, I plan to enjoy Rochester's Genny Cream Ale.

Other than the winter weather and the number of railroad tracks on city streets, Genny Cream Ale was one of the worst things about living in Rochester.

J. Panther Pilsner!

 

[Savage]

Awww, tuna......! The devil you say! Most of the railroad grade crossings have been removed, and Genny Cream still rules. High Falls Brewing just built a new pub and restaurant on the footprint of the old Standard Ale Brew House.

(Sic transit Standard Dry Ale and Topper Pilsener....)

I think the Brew House would make a great location for an IBOC Wake.

 

[WJPYFM]

I think the FCC should just admit their mistakes. Yes IBOC at night was wrong and we will no longer allow it at night. Those that still want it in the day fine but let's go back to AM stereo are here is the standard we will use. Also we will allow 15k audio bandwidth during the day. I remember AM stereo on 1520 and it was much better than what we have now. If Ihash must be broadcast by the holdouts than make them go all digital by a certain date and they will turn that stuff off real quick. Also any AM station simulcasting on the FM is to stop otherwise give up one or the other. Time to clean up the AM band, free up some freqs for power & bandwidth increases. Do we really need AM stations on the air at night with less than 1Kw that in most cases just generate noise. It has been said that the FCC does not care about AM anymore and just want it to go away on its own. They are too busy with wireless data and all the problems that is causing, this a very low priority if not the lowest. AM still has a fighting chance but as time goes on, the new data generation will not have a need for it if it continues to "sound bad" as my daughter puts it. I guess with enough Genny Beer maybe it will sound ok because I will be drinking alone listening to my AM radio in the garage. Neither are allowed in the house or the car.

 

[Kent T]

Genny Cream it is. I buy two cases of it when in Chattanooga. Will drink one to celebrate. But with the artifacts and crummy audio of HD AM, we really need to drink St. Ides Premium Malt Liquor or King Cobra.

 

[arc23]

CANADIAN WHISKEY because no Canadian AM has IBOC

We also only have a few HD FMs

CING-FM Hamilton is only one I receive here in Toronto

 

[kenglish]

How about we all just go AM Stereo, and get Denon to tool up and build a million of those TU-680NAB tuners?
Oh, and some decent loop antennas to go with them.

 

[Darth_vader]

Regardless of how premature this thread is, you don't have to have alcohol to celebrate, do you? In fact, don't you think a celebration would be more enjoyable when you're *not* deliberately poisoning your body with mind-altering substances? I would sure think so, at least.

Just drink plain water. Your livers and kidneys will thank you. Have some Orangina if it really matters.

 

[Darth_vader]

Regardless of how premature this thread is, you don't have to have alcohol to celebrate, do you? In fact, don't you think a celebration would be more enjoyable when you're *not* deliberately poisoning your body with mind-altering substances? I would sure think so, at least.

Just drink plain water. Your livers and kidneys will thank you. Have some Orangina if it really matters.

"I remember stereo on 1520 and it was much better than what we have now."

"Sunny 1520"?

Yeah, their sound quality ROCKED. Seriously. It showed off the potential of how good a MW station can sound.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Regardless of how premature this thread is, you don't have to have alcohol to celebrate, do you? In fact, don't you think a celebration would be more enjoyable when you're *not* deliberately poisoning your body with mind-altering substances? I would sure think so, at least.

Just drink plain water. Your livers and kidneys will thank you. Have some Orangina if it really matters.

I joined this good natured thread myself - even though I personally never drink alcohol or use any other mind altering substance. Life is just too good to miss anything. But I never judge those who use alcohol occasionally as long as they do not drive afterwards. After all, Jesus himself was known to drink wine occasionally. His first public miracle was changing water into wine (look it up). And don't give me that tired old yarn "it wasn't really wine" argument. Archaeologists have busted that myth multiple times. And the new vs. old wineskins illustration is meaningless without fermentation.

 

[kenglish]

I think that wine is about all they had back then, unless there was some very fresh water available nearby.
Probably not as potent as what we call wine nowadays, or it would have been a miracle that anybody got things done ;D .

 

[Tom Wells]

Make mine a Gennesee too.
Now I want to know exactly where my Genny Cream Ale CRAB HAMMER has gotten off to....?
Just another thing to add the the list of things lost in the ozone...somewhere.

 

[Darth_vader]

"And don't give me that tired old 'it wasn't really wine' argument. Archaeologists have busted that myth multiple times."

[citation needed]

 

[Ai4i]

After all, Jesus himself was known to drink wine occasionally.

Here is T. Graham Brown's rebuttal.
The founding fathers grew and wrote of the benefits of smoking hemp and likely used it to keep their slaves passive.
We could all get together in Amsterdam and then go tour one of my favorite pubcasters in Hilversum.