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what brand of radios I mean. etc
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: Radio Reading services - radio conversion


> Walt,
>
> In many cases, the only thing you'll hear on other stations is telemetry
> (for remote meter reading, etc).  I've sometimes heard music services (the
> kind used as background in restaurants), and occasionally foreign language
> broadcasts, but there's not a whole lot out there worth listening to. 
> Many
> of the music services have moved away from SCA, and are handled in other
> ways, such as XM and Serius, so don't expect to find very many of those.
> Keep in mind that there are two SCA channels, and there's no standard for
> which ones are used by stations.  Many of the tunable radios have the
> capability to switch between them, but some don't.
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Walt Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 04:04
> Subject: Re: Radio Reading services - radio conversion
>
>
>> I was wondering if anybody on here has one of those tunable SCA-equipped
>> radios and can tell us about anything other than reading services that
> they
>> regularly pick up. The FM Atlas web page references such broadcasts, but
>> I've never really heard any discussion of other services that use these
>> frequencies.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Hank Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 3:09 AM
>> Subject: Re: Radio Reading services - radio conversion
>>
>>
>> there is other stuff on the sca carier who knows I hear there is music on
>> there as well
>> other data srvices to
>> at least there was last I cecked about 5 years ago 

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