POWER-side [independent sideband system of AM stereo]

The independent sideband system of AM stereo can, by use of special audio processing, significantly improve mono reception. The resulting transmitted signal, called a `POWER-side´ signal, allows listeners to `sideband tune´ with new types of mono receivers so as to reduce co and adjacent channel interference, improve the effective fidelity of the AM receiver, and make the receiver´s tuning significantly less critical. Furthermore, due to the inequality of low frequency sideband components, the system reduces selective fading, antenna null distortion and re-radiation problems when the POWER-side signal is received by both `sideband tuned´ mono receivers as well as digitally tuned stereo and mono receivers which center tune to the carrier frequency. Most importantly, this type of wave substantially reduces co-channel `beating´ effects that have, since the earliest days of broadcasting, plagued AM signal reception