[Scan-DC] Ramsey passive air-band monitor?

[Daniel Brown]

Dewey -

Not sure when you last flew but most airlines aren't telling people to turn
off devices any longer. They ask you to stow larger ones, such as laptops
and cd/DVD players, but ipods and the like are generally OK these days.






On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Dewey3 <dewey3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrew...
>
> Opinion only.  Reminds me of the old (1960's and 1970's) Radio Shack
> solderless project boxes where **everything**, battery, wires, diodes,
> resistors, crystal, and tuner were connected by trapping the stripped ends
> in the springs that were pressed into the project board... but now come
> full circle and completely assembled with HIGH dollar price tag.  (My
> favorite one just happened to be the aircraft receiver).  Only "problem" is
> when the flight deck says "turn off all electronic devices", they are not
> going to get into the semantics of oscillators when they tell you to TURN
> IT OFF.
>
> Just an opinion,
> Dewey
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Andrew Clegg <andrew_w_clegg at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone used one of these? Any opinions? The selling point is that
> > since it's not a superhet receiver (therefore no LO), it's legal to use
> on
> > planes.
> >
> >
> http://www.ramseyelectronics.com/Passive-Air-Band-Monitor-Assembled/dp/B00B88L8JU
> > 73 de W4JE
> >
> >
> >
> >
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