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Old 05-20-2010, 12:45 PM
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Nothin' I've ever been able to get...Think there's sposed t'be some ham stuff around 1850 meg, I dunno. The cell phone freqs. were kinda fun at 1st, but how often do you REALLY wanna hear- "Maw, I'm at th' Store-Ya want me t'pick up inny Aigs ?" Now, everything's digital/scrambled, & even back when it wasn't, a lot of the time all you could hear was 1/2 the conversation, & then they'd about always go BLERP ! & quit when they went to the next cell tower's area. The FCC & the media made such a big deal of people listening in on cellphone calls, it was kinda silly I thought, not that many people had ICOM R-7000s, or anything else that would go that high. Yeah, they WERE in the old UHF band, but the chances of someone picking one up on an older TV seemed to be pretty remote. Plus, IIRC, they are narrowband anyway, & TV sound was/is wideband, it just really wouldn't work.
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