TROUBLE IN HD PARADISE: NPR DIGS IN ITS HEELS OVER DIGITAL HIKE

[Tom Wells]

I'm ready to testify in Court.  My name is attached (proudly) to many of the facts that are so inconvenient for ibiquity,
and I readied myself for such an eventuality when I read the "white paper"  so accurately describing the intrusive sideband
noise many years ago.  If they have a list of people to be mad about, I'm sure I'm on the list.
I'll be busy calculating the monetary loss for my "broken" reception and loss of use I have suffered.
Oh, and there's some "pain and suffering" claims too.

When the court needs an RF engineer with no conflicts of interest to testify in this case,  I'll welcome the call.
Nothing makes me happier than repairing something that's broken.  That's my job. 
If I can fix millions of radios in a courtroom, that's just as satisfying as repairing them with diagnosis, parts and solder.
Bad concepts are a little more difficult to diagnose than bad parts, but the procedure's the same.
You look at what is supposed to happen, and when you get to the vicinity where something isn't working, you look for
what is different.   In the physical world, you find many sorts of failure, some which show up on your meter, others which
the meter won't help with,  like an intermittantly leaky capacitor.
In the world of design, what doesn't work is often due to a lack of background and experience, or a refusal to recognize or
accept real-world  conditions.


There they are, blood spurting out everywhere, like the Black Knight, saying "It's just a flesh wound, I'll kick your a**, c'mere an I'll
bite your leg off, you bas**rd."

Took my wife and daughter over to the doctor today to confirm my daughter has H1N1. 
I tried out the new Kenwood HD a little since we took my wife's car.   
WBBM AM 780 was hissing away merrily but would not decode even once in HD, at only 19 or 20 miles from the towers.
WLS decoded about 30%, and they're about 40 miles away, so what's wrong at WBBM?
They should really be using the ID, " This is WBBM AM Chicago, WBBM HD, "Bensenville-Itasca-Schaumburg", as there's no point in mentioning Chicago if we can't receive it  'way over here.

[w9wi]

NPR has a lot of political clout with the Commission, and they're labouring mightily these days to put their foot down about the digital increase without looking like they're doing it.  Hence all the muted chatter about selective sideband tinkering and SFNs.  iBiquity says they're all for all those creative solutions.  Which of course means: precisely the opposite is the case, since just about every public stance the company takes is a complete lie.

Thing is, what you *might* get is a world with one set of IBOC-FM conditions below 92MHz and a different set above 92...

[Savage]

Intriguing suggestion, w9wi - but what about all the pubcasters operating in the commercial band?

Whichever flavor of digital power increase is eventually disgorged at the Commission, I would expect a tiny handful of upgrades as HD promoters blow their last fragment of engineering and management capital on pushing IBOC beyond all reason.

These hand-selected upgrades will serve as HD Show Horses for the highly predictable "See?  SEE?  The adjacent-channel interference isn't so bad!" conclusions....like the Clear Channel - Greater Media stacked deck experiment in New England where the adjacent stations were atypically shielded from each other by mountains.  Or the Rhode Island Public Radio vs. Greater Media measurements which were likely manipulated by the latter and iBiquity. 

Did I say "manipulated?"  I should have said, "falsified."

[Dighton Rockhead]

Or the Rhode Island Public Radio vs. Greater Media measurements which were likely manipulated by the latter and iBiquity. 

Did I say "manipulated?"  I should have said, "falsified."

From those of us in Market #41 who care about the long-term viability of our local NPR service on 102.7......

AMEN ! ! !......And......amen.