Well, don't confuse wide band fm with wide band receive or wide band 
coverage.  My f6, for example, has ssb, am, narrow fm and wide fm.  The 
wide fm I use for receiving my wireless stuff above 900 mhz.  Actually, 
it gets a little confusing as I think some commercial radios call their 
2.5 deviation narrow band.  Anyhow, normal ham and police stuff are say 
5 khz.  Fm radio, of corse is something like 150 khz.  I think tv is 75 
khz and so on.

It depends on what you're wanting to listen to.  My t90, for example, 
won't receive my wireless speakers as they are a wide band fm 
transmition.
73s
Butch Bussen
wa0vjr

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, matt V wrote:

> well, i should have mentioned which radio I am looking at getting I suppose
> lol, I think maybe i mentioned it via other posts but, I am wanting to get
> my hands on the ic-t90a i believe it is, the icom ht with morse code readout
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 11:11 PM
> Subject: Re: radios with wide-band receive
>
>
>> Hi Matt.
>>
>> It might or might not depending upon which radio you are talking about.
>> In
>> the strict sense, wide band receive means that it receives frequencies
>> outside the ham bands, like the VHF frequencies between 148 and 174 MHz,
>> but it can include other things as well.  For example, most of the newer
>> Yaesu HTs with wide band receive actually are general coverage throughout
>> the VHF and UHF spectrum including FM broadcast.
>>
>> Some HTs have the ability to receive both wideband FM and standard narrow
>> band FM.
>>
>> I haven't had a lot of experience with these DC to daylight radios because
>> in the part of the city I live in, such radios tend to suffer badly from
>> frontend overload.  But, I did play with a blind friend's Yaesu VX5R last
>> year and it seemed ok for the most part, although the keyboard was a
>> little
>> too complicated for my tastes.
>>
>> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>>
>>
>>
>> At 06:46 PM 7/28/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>>> hi all
>>> I see the radio I want has this feature on it, so what exactly does wide =
>>> band receive mean?  Is it what I think, it will to make a long story =
>>> short, replace the need for a scanner and an fm radio or doesn't it =
>>> receive that stuff?
>>> If it does, I'm thinking wide-band would be a good thing
>>>
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