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Old July 30th 06, 05:43 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jim Macklin
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But they now must meet the latest standards for bandwidth,
etc. Many of the old Narco, ARC and other radios cannot be
used.



"RST Engineering" wrote in message
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| You can buy legal 1, 6, 90, and 360 channel radios.
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| Jim
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| "Roy Smith" wrote in message
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| "Jim Macklin"
wrote:
| Going from 100 KHz to 25 KHz quadrupled the number of
channels. Forty
| years ago, 90 comm. channels and 50 VOR was common and
now, Comm.
| channels are in the thousands.
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| So why are we still stuck with almost every uncontrolled
field in
| existence
| having their CTAFs crammed into just 2 or 3 freqs? How
many years is it
| since you could even buy a radio that didn't have 25 khz
spacing?
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