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42-1015 OLD FM BAND( BOL Cabinet)
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10-28-2016, 05:18 PM
(10-28-2016, 05:04 PM)Joeztech Wrote:  I do not know if anyone ever made a converter to convert the 88-108mHz band back down to the 42-50mHz band. If there are any, such a converter would repopulate your FM band with lots of stations.

Joe

Hallicrafters made a few, Scott had one that could be mounted inside the cabinet of their receivers, and I'm sure other companies made them as well.  There are some shown on this page:

https://www.somerset.net/arm/fm_only_converters.html

The problem is the old band is 8 MHz wide while the modern band is 20 MHz wide.  The converter has to break up the new band into 3 segments to cover everything on the old band.
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42-1015 OLD FM BAND( BOL Cabinet) - by davidff - 08-19-2016, 01:26 PM
RE: 42-1015 OLD FM BAND( BOL Cabinet) - by vecher - 08-19-2016, 02:21 PM
RE: 42-1015 OLD FM BAND( BOL Cabinet) - by Kestas - 08-21-2016, 08:55 PM
RE: 42-1015 OLD FM BAND( BOL Cabinet) - by Sean - 10-28-2016, 05:18 PM
RE: 42-1015 OLD FM BAND( BOL Cabinet) - by Sean - 11-03-2016, 09:15 AM



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