RadioBanter - View Single Post - AFRTS (USA Armed Forces radio) on Shortwave?

May 4th 06, 11:29 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

Telamon wrote:

In article ,
(Geoffrey S. Mendelson) wrote:

dxAce wrote:

The frequency 7812.5 listed under Key West, FL is actually 7811.

No, it's really 7812.5. Shortwave and amateur radios are calibrated
differently than commercial, marine and miltitary ones.

You are used to setting USB freqencies to the carrier (bottom) which is at
7811. The frequency listed is the CENTER frequency which is what their
radio is calibrated to.

Look up 60 meter ham band frequencies for an explanation.

I have a Drake, AOR, and Ten-Tec radios that all tune to the frequencies
listed without some offset. DxAce owns Drake radios.

Yep, and all the other freq's come in correctly as listed. The one they made a
mistake with on that list is 7812.5, and if that one is indeed 'correct', then
ALL the others would then be listed incorrectly for 'commercial, marine and
miltitary' radios.

We'll let Mr. Mendolson play semantics though :-)

dxAce
Michigan
USA