RE: ive always wondered

[<Patriotsrule417@prodigy.net>]

My AIWA stereo system can be changed to have 9 khz and 10 khz.
~adam

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
[mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Bill
O'Neill
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 7:39 PM
To: Garrett Wollman
Cc: Boston Radio Interest
Subject: Re: ive always wondered


Garrett writes:
> In Japan, the FM band is 76 to 90 MHz, which causes problems for
> antipodean purchasers of used Japanese domestic-market cars.  In the
> former Soviet bloc, the FM band was 64 to 74 MHz, with channel spacing
> in 10-kHz increments (so one might be listening to a station on 68.45
> MHz); <snip>

How about 9 kHz spaced AM?  Is that the European standard and elsewhere? And
how does that impact on the "sound"?  I once had an aftermarket car stereo
in my Mustang II (Pinto wannabee) bomber where you could mess with switches
and convert the 10 kHz AM to 9 kHz (on a slow news day.)

Bill O'Neill