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From: ron@brl-smoke.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: Help with Bearcat 100 Scanner
Message-ID: <1700@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 13:26:20 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 11 13:26:20 1986
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> I own a plain-vanilla Bearcat 100 (not 100xl) and have had it
> for quite some time now with no real major problems.  However, I live
> real close to our local airport and wouldn't mind receiving the
> aircraft bands.  Has anyone had any luck in possibly altering the
> scanner to cover these bands?  I've seen the ads for downconversion
> boxes, but didn't want to invest that kind of money.  Please
> understand that I have no idea how difficult this may be, but if it
> can or can't be done I wouldn't mind learning more about the scanner
> internals....

One problem is that aviation radio is AM not FM like nearly everything
else that the scanner handles.

-Ron