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Article #19977Re: Re: economical to modify a scanner radio ?
From: Harold Wong
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 1988 16:14
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 1988 16:14
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In article <4156@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM> jans@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Jan Steinman) writes: ><...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! Wouldn't noise and losing contact be more of a problem? Just think of your AM radio in the car. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harold Wong (213) 825-9040 UCLA-Mathnet; 3915F MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA 90024-1555 ARPA: hgw@math.ucla.edu BITNET: hgw%math.ucla.edu@INTERBIT
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!bionet!apple!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sm.unisys.com!ucla-cs!math.ucla.edu!julia!hgw From: hgw@julia.math.ucla.edu (Harold Wong) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Re: economical to modify a scanner radio ? Message-ID: <182@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU> Date: 7 Nov 88 16:14:45 GMT References: <4156@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM> Sender: news@MATH.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: hgw@math.ucla.edu (Harold Wong) Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department Lines: 17