[Scanner] make your own scanner..

[Bill Smith]

Yup. It's real.  With the FCC narrowing the UHF from 25 to 12.5 KHz. 
spacing, they narrowed down VHF as well.  Unlike UHF, VHF has channels 
spaced at 15, 20 and 25 KHz. depending on where you are in VHF.  So, the 
FCC took each segment and made up a list of freqs that make a mess out of 
high band. Yes, you can get most all of them with existing Scanners because 
of the fairly wide IF bandwidth, but it would be nice and sound better to 
be right on frequency.  The next channel of 155.645 is 2.5 KHz away from 
the center of this PD's Repeater output.  With 2.5 KHz. deviation, it 
sounds crappy unless I'm within 5 Miles or so.  The FCC is going against 
the long standing policy of last guy in fixes interference problems and 
pretty much saying that if you are wide band ( +- 5.0 KHz. deviation) that 
you either shift to narrow or live with the interference.

At 08:27 PM 5/19/2002 -0500, you wrote:

>155.6475 would have to be a half space split of 15khz. Since when has the
>FCC allowed .0075  channel seperation spacing on VHF?  Are you sure this is
>a "licensed" frequency or just where some bootleg radio shop set up a user
>on an unlicensed frequency.  Futhermore what user(s) in their right mind
>would want or tolerate .0075 spacing?
>
>Mike Urich,   KA5CVH
>www.ka5cvh.com
>LaPorte TX   EL-29
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