On 4/11/2013 7:12 PM, Bob Kuykendall wrote:
On Apr 11, 2:33 pm, "Paul Remde" wrote:
... 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.

I will be someewhat surprised if we get to 2020 and we are still using
what we think of today as "aircraft radios." I think that by then we
will find that the bandwidth dedicated to those old grampa boxes will
have been divided up and auctioned off, and we will be communicating
over a system based on mobile phone infrastructure.

If I'm wrong, I'll buy you a beer at the 2020 SSA convention. Offer
limited to the first 24 "I told ya sos."

Is there still a premium for the extra channels? The last panel mount
radio I bought had 8.33 khz spacing (you can disable it for easier
tuning). It was only $23 more than their 25 kHz spacing unit.

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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to
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