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From: Lawrence Statton NK1G <lawrence@senguio.mx>
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Subject: Re: AM radio Qbasic
Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 08:48:17 -0500
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Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> writes:
> I take the VHF, operating on the maritime bands. It has coverage along
> all coasts and from mountain tops with just the whip. I have successfully
> run a radio check with Norwegian operators from the Limfjord inside Denmark.
>
> It operates in the 28MHz bands, just above the 11M band. It uses FM, not
> AM, so it is kind-of-hybrid SW. But the channels for the emergency rescue
> teams are there.

You *SURE* about that?  The only marine stuff that I know of is up
around 156-160 - nowhere near 28.

--NK1G