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When an AM station's IBOC interferes with a local station...

The frustration is from all this interference comes no skywave digital reception. I have a Sony HD radio with an amazing AM section day and night. However the HD light flashes on the solid clear channels that normally boom in at night but the radio will not lock HD. A Select-A-tenna can't even produce results.
 
stacker said:
I know the WOAI sidebands were really strong in Dallas, it is a wonder 1190 didn't complain.
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1200 and 1190 are both CC stations.
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I made the same mistake once with KDKA and WBZ. That said, if a station is taking that kind of interference, something merits being said. Might make it easier to resolve if it's within a company.
 
MarioMania said:
I don't get it if WBZ interference is in Pittsburgh at night, Why is no one complaning?
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Who would they complain to? It's not like there's anyone manning a switchboard at some office waiting to take down complaints of interference for an AM station.

My experience has been that unless you know the engineer or know someone who does, a complaint about reception of ANY kind, HD or otherwise, will fall on deaf ears. Case in point, the only way I can really hear our local Clear Channel news/talker is via HD-2 on an FM station. But that (and the other station that shares the tower) have been sans HD for a month or two now. Who do I call? I can't even find an office number. If I could, that issue would just get set aside. Facebook? Those posts generally get deleted. I know, I tried. Today, I noticed that all but three local FMs are off HD now. Dead, kaput. That's three lost formats that at one time I listened to regularly.

The same thing will happen with the AMs suffering interference. People may try to complain but it won't do any good. Eventually, they'll quit listening.

If the ratings are still good, then no one is suffering that bad and it's not a problem.
 
I never understood why there's a need for AM to broadcast in HD when it's nothing but talk. ???

How clear do you need to hear a voice to be able to know what they are saying? ;D

Now, I could see if music was still big on AM as it was until the 80s but that's not the case.


I wish AM Stereo had caught on. I thought that was a far better innovation than this 'HD'.
 
IBOC from 1100 WTAM and 1120 KMOX makes it where you can't listen to 1110 WBT here in Metro Atlanta
 
From what I'm hearing, one of the ideas being floated around is to convert the ENTIRE AM band to HD.

Personally, I can't think of a FASTER way to KILL AM radio altogether.
 
Bongwater said:
From what I'm hearing, one of the ideas being floated around is to convert the ENTIRE AM band to HD.

Personally, I can't think of a FASTER way to KILL AM radio altogether.
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That would do it. But if it's voluntary, AND the pure HD method is totally contained within +/-10khz like analog AM is, the overall result may well be less interference to neighboring signals and better coverage for the stations who are in such bad shape that they have little to lose. We have learned from HD television that interference--even minimal interference--is a deal breaker. And with the nature of nighttime AM, I can't see any way that this could ever work to any meaningful degree at night...hybrid or pure HD unless error correction on steroids were to break out from the research labs.
 
Bongwater said:
From what I'm hearing, one of the ideas being floated around is to convert the ENTIRE AM band to HD.

Personally, I can't think of a FASTER way to KILL AM radio altogether.
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You know some anti-AMers would love that. :) But that is one of the worst ideas I've ever heard in anything. So many AM stations here in the Midwest have turned off HD the past several months, and the band sounds better than it has since probably 2005.
 
schmave said:
Bongwater said:
From what I'm hearing, one of the ideas being floated around is to convert the ENTIRE AM band to HD.

Personally, I can't think of a FASTER way to KILL AM radio altogether.
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You know some anti-AMers would love that. :) But that is one of the worst ideas I've ever heard in anything. So many AM stations here in the Midwest have turned off HD the past several months, and the band sounds better than it has since probably 2005.
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Ironically, if the AM band were to be "killed", what could you use it for? Pretty much nothing else that would benefit most radio conglomerates. So in the worst case, I'd say open it up to Low Power AMs as a community/hobby band
 
I think the future use of the AM Band should be to address the demand by community groups and
nonprofits that they should have a place at the table in broadcasting.

I could foresee the entire band being taken up by small, local, 100 to 1000 watt nondirectional stations.
A giant graveyard if you will. Cheap to operate with just one tower required.
 
Of course, what will probably happen is Family Radio, brokered Ethnic and the remaining 50kwers that have not switched, in the next 15-20 years.

I'd love for the small local stuff. It would be interesting to get a 100w station from WY, or a 600w community station from Idaho.

-crainbebo
 
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