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From: lagasse@biomed.UUCP (Robert C. Lagasse)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Motrac,Mocom,Mastr?
Message-ID: <64@biomed.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-May-85 17:45:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: biomed.64
Posted: Mon May 20 17:45:40 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 22-May-85 01:07:16 EDT
Organization: Mass. Gen. Hosp. - Dept. Biomed. Engineering
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1). Has anyone but myself noticed the audio tone quality that commercial
mobile FM gear has?  Unlike your typical "police scanner" or even
mass-produced FM amateur radios which have a high pitched hiss when you
disable the squelch, commercial sets have a throaty sounding hiss and the
voice quality is always pleasant, not buzzy.  I have tried building audio
filters to change the tone for my 2m gear but all I get is muffled audio.
External speakers help a bit but I am convinced that they are doing
something sneaky inside of the commercial stuff.

2).  6 meter questions:
    I am young enough to have missed the heyday of 6m popularity.  Does
anyone still produce it for hams?  Should I build my own or modify a Motrac
or something?  How bad were the TVI problems from equipment used strictly
car-to-car in rural areas?  What kind of range advantage can I expect
over 2m mobile-to-mobile?  All I want are one or two freqs.  Were there any
"popular" ones like 146.520 simplex(2m) ?
Bob Lagasse N 1 A L G      Mass. Gen. Hosp.