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Ncrebel
| | Posted on Saturday, December 29, 2001 - 5:27 pm: | 
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I read in a previous post in the mods forum how one fellow modified his clock radio to pick up the aircraft band.How
can this be done?I'm interrested  .Thanks |
bruce
| | Posted on Saturday, December 29, 2001 - 8:13 pm: |
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IF you could retune the fm part to 135 mhz from 88-108 and feed the output of the mixer to the am section of the radio by rewireing the mixer of the am radio to work at 10.7 mhz you would have a double converson aircraft reciver so you could do it however ramsey and others make kits for about 35 bucks that are made to tune aircraft so unless you are out to prove something go check out ramsey at www.ramsey.com i have one of the kits it works well not like a 400 dollar scanner but works.
bruce |
409
| | Posted on Sunday, December 30, 2001 - 4:21 am: |
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I have an older FM radio that does a good job receiving aircraft band with no mods. Up near the high end of the band around 105 mhz it gets pretty good reception. I haven't tried it yet, but i'll bet you could tweak the tuning a little and bring it up a little more. |
bruce
| | Posted on Sunday, December 30, 2001 - 11:53 am: |
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what you are hearing is the OTHER side of the 10.7 mix produict or whats called a image still aircraft is on am you are useing a fm reciver to get them. At 105 your image with a high osc would be 105+ 21.4 or 129.4 which is in the aircraft band nice trick but i still would go get a ramsey. |
bruce
| | Posted on Sunday, December 30, 2001 - 9:55 pm: |
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OOPS try 126.4 but you get the point |
Ncrebel
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2002 - 10:08 am: |
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Hey,thanks for the replys but how exactly would I go about rewiring the mixer on the radio to pick up those bands?I don't wanna spend the money to get a ramsey kit,I'd just assume do it myself.
Thanks |
