"Preesi" wrote in message
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What low cost full featured radio with sideband do you all have?
There has got to be some basic radio you ppl can recommend!
PLEASE!

What frequencies do the majority of you find RTTY, WEFAX and CW on?

If You came on a newsgroup or msg brd I was on and asked questions Id help
you



Inexpensive radio and RTTY, FAX, CW do not go together real well. There is
also very little RTTY or FAX around anymore. The only real CW is on the Ham
bands.
You are going to be up in the Icom R75 or the like range and a very good
antenna before you will get a very good read on those type of signals. You
need a sensitve and very selective radio with a very tight bandwidth to
decode those signals accurately.

You need to hit one of the utility Web sites to see what frequencies are
currently active for the non voice modes.

With satellite and other means available RTTY, FAX and non Ham CW are coming
to a close. If I remember correctly commercially used CW is gone

The authority book on the commercial side band traffic is Klingenfuss and he
publishes a new book annually. SelCal for air traffic is still around and
fairly easy to decode even if you do not have the best radio, a good 2.8
filter and SSB is fine. You need the Selcal software from AirNav though and
you run the audio into your sound card from your radio.

Greg