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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