On Thursday, April 11, 2013 8:12:58 PM UTC-6, 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."



Thanks, Bob K.

I've got a feeling you'll win that bet. By 2020, the 2 meter AM simplex air-band will be nearly 100 years old and very likely the last of its kind in use. It's way past its use-by date. There are better ways to communicate..