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Old 3rd Mar 2009, 17:40
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jetfresh
 
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833 Channel spacing

It looks as though 833 channel spacing is now with us whatever the FIR. Has anyone noticed the confusion that arises when trying to read back the "change to" frequency.
There are now many more repeats from ATC in order to correct misread freqs. Not only that, but the clarity of the transmission is not so clear as before. There seems to be lack of bandwith and some clipping on some frequencies.
Why not adopt an Alpha Numeric system of channel naming, of say some 24 letters and 99 numbers.
Much easier to say change to D56 than 133.084.
We would, however still have to sort out the clarity.
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