Bell Labs has a research project to drop the power level of digital communications such as networking. Their design is to pick the 1's and 0's out of a data stream more efficiently. This means that they will need less power to pull data out of the noise. They claim it will take very little change to do so.
If this could be applied to IBOC, the potential coverage of the digital portion could be significantly greater without any power increase. In fact, the digital sideband power may be able to be decreased to match the current analog coverage. From a DX perspective, we may be able to hear more distant stations digitally than by analog. It's sort of a paradigm shift in the hobby, but... The story is on the Popular Science web site. http://www.popsci.com/ I would also have to wonder if this could somehow be applied to the DSP chips in ULRs. Now THAT would be interesting. Craig Healy Providence, RI _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
