Vivvo CMS 4.1 http://www.rbr.com/ ©2010 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://www.rbr.com/files.php?file=rss_logo1_757997737.jpg http://www.rbr.com/ http://www.rbr.com/radio/18299.html Radio News Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:09:00 -0500 iBiquity Digital and NPR announced an agreement for managing an HD Radio power increase that will significantly improve reception of HD Radio signals. The two Radio News Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:10:00 -0500 I have a comment about this next step in the total disintegration of the free broadcast spectrum by our pals at NAB and the broadcast coalition of key players and our buddies at NPR who make the final cutting off of the life support possible in the aligned push of this modern digital switch to upgrade power to higher levels than anyone could imagine with your "high definition" You've mis-spelled the name. This movement is more correctly "hide definition" as in absent is the transient audio that made radio a step ahead of owning the CD. And the expense of building a phase-linear RF transmission device capable of providing 6 db more gain can be greatly reduced by simply reducing the useless analog carrier to a comparable peak power output level coverage of the proposed digital demodulated signal. That figure would be about 20db reduction in analog power to correspond to same relative level of interference and contours produced by the -20db digital carriers based on dynamics of "tuned" networks having digital carriers imposed on their inputs relative to the bandwidth (Q factor) required for conventional AM-FM signals. The savings in utility costs could help to pay for the digital upgrades and reduce needless analog coverages to the more correct contours of digitally dispersed transmission systems. Why waste hard earned Eurodollars on dead issues in the first place. Thus we have a win-win situation. Those who wish to impose their digital carriers can do so knowing they've made the supreme sacrifice in unworthy analog carrier emissions that garnish such terms as "old school" and "yesterday's technology". And those with the greatest interest in digital domain can live another day with the "forward movement" of the new age of radio we've grown to expect from them and their followers.Swamp land could have great value in the long run. http://wordpower.us Radio News Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:46:34 -0500 Again the FCC is bowing to the big money interests and completely neglecting the interests of practically all radio broadcast listeners in America. It's time for the FCC to wake up and STOP this IBOC nonsense.The 1% IBOC carrier was supposed to be the value that would not interfere with analog broadcasts; it did and it still does. The FCC allows 6db this time; soon, it will require another 6db. Before long it will be impossible to listen to analog broadcasts (where the listeners are, by the way) because of interference from IBOC.Wake up FCC. Try some solid engineering. STOP all IBOC now. Radio News Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:35:39 -0500 I'm proud to say that my station isn't a member of NAB. Why would any broadcaster want to join an organization that advocates such destruction? Remember that adjacent channels can be as little as 40 miles apart without short spacing.