[Boatanchors] Fasten your seatbelts

[Rod Hogg]

Glen,

I remember "wideband" could be about as wide as you yelled, hi.  I cut my
teeth in two-way with the conversions in the 60's.  Doing the "narrow band"
mods to GE Prog-lines, (even had some Pre-Prog stuff), Motorola Twin-V and
T-Power was fun, had a few 80D's to do too.  After several hundred it became
a real bore, besides keeping them all running!

Gave up on the GE receivers, GE had so many changes it wasn't funny.  Some
even came back to original circuit.  The squelch was horrendous to work
with.  Was very glad to get rid of all them when MastR Pro came out and the
Motracs.

They are using +/- 1.25Khz a little around here now too!   What's next?

Rod
KØEQH



"Today people are calling the +/- 5 kHz deviation "wideband".  However, to
those of us who were using FM in the late 1950s and the 1960s, +/- 5 kHz
deviation is "narrowband" and "wideband" was the +/- 15 kHz deviation that
was the commercial standard before 1957" 

Glen, K9STH