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YEP! IT'S STILL ANOTHER HD RADIO ADJACENT CHANNEL COMPLAINT!

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Savage

"Ladies and Gentlemen: The HITS....just keep onnnn......comin!"

More interference problems IBOC-style from sunny Coliform-ya (Arnold pronunciation).....

Hot on the heels of the KATY/Willie Davis complaint comes another one: KMLA 103.7, a Class A in El Rio, reports it's being stepped on by IBOC irrelevancy hash from Clear Channel's grandfathered superpower B, KOST 103.5. Filed with, and soon to be ignored by, the FCC's Enforcement Bureau.

Tick....tock..... ;D
 
Section 307(b) of the Communications Act of 1934 (as amended) mandates that any broadcast allotment must further the objective of “fair, efficient, and equitable distribution of radio service” among the States and communities. But I question whether the FCC has acted in accordance with 307(b) by allowing major-market grandfathered stations to add digital sidebands which are so high in power as to interfere with the analog service of outlying stations such as KATY-FM and KMLA.

Fact is, in order for KRTH and KOST to transmit the HD signal, additional RF channels (where the digital carriers are placed) are necessary. (The type of modulation used in these channels is completely different from the main analog FM channel -- so IMHO, they should be given separate emission designators -- but that's a subject for another thread)

Note that at -20 dBc nominal injection, the ERP of each digital sideband of KRTH is 270 watts, which exceeds the power allowed for a Class B1 FM station at that HAAT. With KOST, the digital sidebands run at about 63 watts, which exceeds the Class A power limit. So, in effect, the FCC has given Los Angeles (a large, well-served market) an allotment preference (that degrades the coverage of KATY and KMLA in lesser-served areas) in contradiction with established precedent.
 
Isn't there somebody in Congress who can be sic'ed on the Commission about this? How about Mike Pence? He's a former radio guy. The serial violations of existing enabling laws - in letter and in spirit - including the Communications Acts of 1934 and 1996, are disgusting.

It's just so morally wrong to put a colleague broadcaster's livelihood directly in the crosshairs for.....what? Bragging rights that you are simulcasting a "digital stream?" One that virtually not a single listener cares about, and that generally can't be distinguished qualitywise by the average listener from your analog signal? One that in many cases sounds WORSE than the analog?

It's reprehensible. It's not progress. It makes the radio industry look like fools, not innovators. Glynn Walden, Paul Donovan, Jeff Littlejohn and whoever the Greater Media clown is, will deservedly go down in radio history as cynical, dishonest manipulators, not great engineers. Bring a plague on all of them, "and their houses."

At the same time, let's salute those with courage and integrity to reject the HD chimera...like Bob Neil and Martin Stabbert. There are countless others, but these two were leaders at the outside of the IBOC insanity.
 
Hi, guys. Pardon the "intrusion," but I've been following your various threads on HD radio with great interest — and have referenced them several times in the blog keeppublicradiopublic.com. I'm a journalist, not an engineer, and I come to the topic from a different direction: what damage HD radio has wrought on local public radio stations (notably KUT in Austin, but our group includes people from Boston, Gainesville (FL), Seattle, and Johnson City (TN)). I will continue to cite your arguments in posts, but I would also invite you to visit the site and correct me whenever I misquote or misspeak. We have several Facebook sites going as well in the various cities, in the main our group site (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Keeping-the-Public-in-Public-Radio/107942542579499), but also the Boston (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=201481030324&ref=ts) and Austin pages (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=112566211435). I finally felt compelled to insert myself in this thread at Savage's mention of siccing people on Congress, which is something we've tried to do with our category "What Can I Do?" Meanwhile, I'm listening and I'm quoting you. Anything I can do, let me know... ;D
 
No intrusions here, Chattersley - welcome and thanks for the supportive words. I can't speak for all the other posters here, but feel free to quote MOI, anyhow. And feel free to visit www.stopiboc.com.
 
Thanks, Bob. I've got you in my blog roll, as a matter of fact. I'm in Austin, but I'm from Rochester. Went to Eastridge High, then finished in Canandaigua. After a stint at Syracuse U., I worked in NYC at the Fillmore East and Village Voice before escaping the snow down here.
Chats
 
Welcome Chattersley.

Anyone notice that the HD cheerleaders haven't been posting lately again, seems they're only on here when they have another new great hope which as always turns out to be another nail in the coffin for iblock.
 
I just read that the petition for an increase in AM power to overcome interference was REJECTED by the FCC because it will cause adjacent channel interference - BUT the FCC will allow up to a 10-fold power increase for FM-IBOC - WTF? The FCC is talking out both sides of their mouth at the same time - oh, that's right, there's no free lunches for the FCC commissioners in a petition sent in by an engineer with an idea to try and help out the AM band, but there's many a lobster lunch to talk about iBiquity all day long.
 
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