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August 28th 04, 01:05 AM

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:17:45 -0600, (D. Martin) wrote:

A friend of mine received a tube-type shortwave radio from the local
airport years ago. He flew out of that airport, as an amateur flier, and
was in the right place to get this thing. I haven't seen this thing yet,
but if it served as the airports communications, am I gonna have the
ability to contact submarines with this thing, or what?
Not likely. Aviation radio are AM radios operating in VHF around
120-130Mhz... it may not work all that well because the FAA narrowed
the channels some years ago, so the IF is probably too wide for
current use.
He's giving it
to me. I mean, is this gonna be like heavy artillery, or just a
nostalgic old noise maker? Darren

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