Thats true. The PRC 77 and other 1970's to present tactical
radios use narrow band. Approx +or- 5 KHz FM and the commercial
wide band FM would sound bad.
Glenn MVPA
>
> I'm not familiar with the details of the PRC-77 (too new for me!) but I would
> point out that all the 1950's and 60's US military FM units I've experiemented
> with are designed for transmitting and receiving a "medium" bandwidth FM
> signal. Commerical FM 88-108 MHz uses a wide FM signal +/- 75 kHz which would
> probably sound real bad monitored on a narrow or medium bandwidth receiver.
> Such may well be the case for the PRC-77.
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