On Apr 11, 5:33*pm, "Paul Remde" wrote:
Hi,

I imagine someone on this newsgroup can point me in the right direction on a
technical/FAA question.

Becker offers 2 versions of their AR6201 radio. *The original version has
frequency spacing that can be set to either 25 mHz or 8.33 mHz. *The new,
slightly lower cost option has frequency spacing fixed at 25 MHz *It is my
understanding that the 8.33 MHz spacing is required in Europe, but not
currently in the USA. *Customers are asking me whether the FAA has any plans
to go to the 8.33 MHz spacing in the near future - so they can be better
equipped to select the radio version that makes sense. *At a recent soaring
seminar someone stated that they thought the FAA was going to require radios
with the 8.33 MHz spacing starting in 2020.

Can anyone help me?

Thank you in advance.

Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.

I don't think that would fly. This is not Europe (luckily) where they
have mandate to swap ALL radios by 2018. I could see a requirement
being introduced for such channel spacing in busiest airspace some
time into the future or above certain FL. In Europe the requirement
was introduced in 1994 and it only required 8.33 spacing for above
FL245 then with time it was pushed down to be generally mandated by
2018.