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Wed, 12 May 2004 12:00:22 -0700
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How strange.

--- Jeff Kenyon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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