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On 12-16-92, Martin Emde wrote to All:

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Does anyone know how to modify a simple walkman FM receiver to operate
in the 108-136Mhz range (aircraft voice communications) or know if 
something like this is even possible?


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Your fundamental problem is not frequency coverage, but the fact that 
aircraft communication uses AM, not FM!  So you'd have a double whammy to 
deal with.

Probably you'd want to start with an old transistor portable, where you 
could modify things at the component level -- the tiny newer guys are more 
likely to have most of the receiver integreated onto a chip.  You could 
probably pretty easily tune the thing higher, and replace the FM 
discriminator with an AM detector.

That's if you're the experimental type.  Why bother when you can probably 
get an older scanner for peanuts?

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