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26op147
New member
Username: 26op147
Post Number: 1
Registered: 4-2009
| | Posted on Friday, May 08, 2009 - 9:10 am: | 
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Hi all i have a madison which is confusing me i has am /fm also it has hi /low channel button looking on the net can only find 40 channel radios it has a MB8719 chip in side and also has had a mod done for extra channels two switches on the back . was this radio made for the european market 73s 26op147 |
Moderator120
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Username: Moderator120
Post Number: 415
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Friday, May 08, 2009 - 9:24 am: |
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If it has AM/FM and a high low switch for channels, yes I would say it was made for markets other then the US. I have heard of these radios, but I have never seen the base version. I would say you have a rare bird, and I would keep it. And if it is working, well then I would make sure to keep it mint. Congrats to you for having something different!
Mike 
Moderator120
CEF#0120/HAM #222
KB1NYD
CVC#0041
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26op147
New member
Username: 26op147
Post Number: 2
Registered: 4-2009
| | Posted on Friday, May 08, 2009 - 4:51 pm: |
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tride to send you some pics but no joy |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 5054
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 08, 2009 - 10:02 pm: |
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Yes it probly was ....
Some countrys have 40 am and 40 fm ch from what i understand.
REMEMBER FM IS ILLEGAL in the usa SADLY it's a very good mode but requires a wide bandwidth.
As long as you stay on the regular 40 ch no one will know what you have or care.
A quote from the internet ....
" In Great Britain, some people were illegally using American CB radios in the 1970s, a craze which suddenly peaked in 1980 due to popularizing by the film Convoy. As late as the summer of 1981, the British government was still saying that CB would never be legalized on 27 MHz, and proposed a UHF service around 860 MHz called "Open Channel" instead.
However, in November 1981, 40 frequencies unique to the UK, and using FM, were allocated at 27 MHz, plus 20 channels on 934 MHz (934.0125 to 934.9625 MHz with 50-kHz-spacing). CB's inventor Al Gross made the first legal British CB call from Trafalgar Square, London.
Later, the UK added the more usual 40 frequencies used worldwide for a total of 80 channels at 27 MHz, and the 934 MHz band was withdrawn in 1998.
CB radio in the UK was deregulated in December 2006 by the regulatory body Ofcom, and CB radio in the UK is now licence free "
On 6 since 66
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