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echo: scanners
to: TROY H. CHEEK
from: MATTHEW SADLER
date: 1996-08-14 09:03:00
subject: Re: Cellular Mods for ICO

 THC> Concerning _Cellular Mods for ICO_, Matthew Sadler 
 THC> said to Troy H. Cheek in SCANRADIO:
 ->> proper spacing for images.  Maybe I'm tuning in on image sidebands?
 MS> 
 MS> Well, you have to remember that a cellular signal is 30 kHz wide,
 MS> and most scanners tune in 15 kHz increments in that portion of the
 MS> band.
 THC> Do you mean in the cellular range, or just outside it 
 THC> where I'm looking? My PRO-46 seems to use the "proper" 
 THC> 30 kHz steps in the cellular base-to-mobile range, and 
 THC> 12.5 kHz steps elsewhere in the 800 MHz band.
Right. In the cellular band, the channels are 30 kHz apart. Elsewhere, they 
are spaced 12.5 kHz apart. That's why a cellphone has better frequency 
response (audio-wise) as opposed to a two-way radio.
Matthew
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