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Article #19957Re: Re: economical to modify a scanner radio ?
From: Jan Steinman
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1988 17:05
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1988 17:05
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<...the public safety services all seem to use FM (even Highway Patrol at 42 MHz) but aircraft tend to use AM. (would anyone care to explain why?)...> Capture effect. You don't want to lose your contact with a 747 on final because someone nearby turned on an FM broadcast radio that happend to be tuned 10.7 MHz higher! :::::: Software Productivity Technologies -- Experiment Manager Project :::::: :::::: Jan Steinman N7JDB Box 500, MS 50-383 (w)503/627-5881 :::::: :::::: jans@tekcrl.TEK.COM Beaverton, OR 97077 (h)503/657-7703 ::::::
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekcrl!tekgvs!jans From: jans@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Jan Steinman) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Re: economical to modify a scanner radio ? Message-ID: <4156@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM> Date: 27 Oct 88 17:05:21 GMT Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or. Lines: 10