[ICOM] HT battery

[Edward L. Dowdy]

The railroads are going narrow band sometime in the next couple years.

73,
Ed KA9EES

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Fiber" <gfiber at comcast.net>
To: "ICOM Reflector" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 7:41 AM
Subject: Re: [ICOM] HT battery


>  Icom currently has VHF and UHF trunking products. And they are working
> on very narrow band FM using a 6,25 KHz channel spacing on Land Mobile
> transceivers which is FCC mandated..
> This means Digital modulation as the old analog way of setting it to
> 5KHz will not work with such narrow channel spacing I don't think we
> will see that set up in amateur products though, there are some trade offs
> going so narrow at least trying to do it conventionally not digitally.
>
> Gary K8IZ