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Jeff Kenyon <[log in to unmask]>
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Blind-Hams For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 12 May 2004 13:15:11 -0400
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Well, I don't know, but receivers like that that have all of that with the
exception of the THF6A and a scanner I have when you are tuning around in
that band it is always wide band and no changing the band width.
----- Original Message -----
From: "shawn klein" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: NOAA Weather voices in different parts of the country


> Yes, but I would think it would already receive with
> narrow fm on those bands??? Who would want to try to
> operate while receiving in wfm, anytime a repeater 30
> khz away that was stronger than the 1 you're operating
> came in, it would capture your receiver, besides,
> you're giving up sensitivity if you have it in wfm for
> nfm transmissions.
>
> --- Brent Harding <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Oh, so on my th-f6a, do I want to check the narrow
> > option for fm on 2m 220
> > and 440? Will that make the audio better?
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "shawn klein" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 3:20 PM
> > Subject: Re: NOAA Weather voices in different parts
> > of the country
> >
> >
> > > I just use my Alinco dual band HT since my pro34
> > > keyboard went kuh bluie! a few years ago. We
> > bought a
> > > clock radio for the kitchen with weather band on
> > it,
> > > but it doesn't pick up squat there. Tried in vain
> > to
> > > find an exposed screw I could put a wire on to see
> > if
> > > I could have an antenna. Radio was $9 if I
> > remember
> > > right. I first heard it on a t.v. radio back in
> > the
> > > early 80's, it had a.m fm vhf low t.v., vhf high
> > t.v.
> > > and a band that covered from 118 to 174 mhz. I
> > later
> > > upgraded to 1 that had 11 meters also. I also
> > heard 2
> > > meters on those radios too, I didn't know back
> > then
> > > that the reason I'd be listening to 1 qso, and
> > another
> > > would replace it, was that the darned radio used
> > wide
> > > band fm on that band. I found out later too that I
> > was
> > > slope detecting on the aircraft band.
> > > --- Jeff Kenyon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > > I've never heard of it.  My first introduction
> > to
> > > > weather radio was my
> > > > grandfather's old 4-channel Regency Crystal
> > Scanner
> > > > back in 1981!  I think
> > > > that was his first radio scanner, and every
> > other
> > > > one to follow had the
> > > > weather channel.  My parents had the NOAA band
> > in
> > > > their clock radio, but it
> > > > never worked and reception was horrible with it
> > so I
> > > > stuck with the scanner.
>
>
>
>
>
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