[Boatanchors] Fasten your seatbelts

[Bill Mellema]

Wonder if Motorola will still replace the Permakay filters for free 
today?? :)

Bill N3WM

With Motorola 1973 to 1997




Rod Hogg wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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