A320 Radio question

[gsmini320]

Hello,

Did anybody ever use the AM on the radio management panel? Or the FBO?
Really wondering if there's any experienced pilot out there that knows a bit more?

Cheers!

[Henry VIII]

Never did it !
BFO (not FBO... ) means Beat Frequency Oscillator, an old style technology to make the morse pulses audible.
Do not know if and where such kind of transmitters still exist.

[Citation2]

I would just like to add that every NDB frequency or ident underligned on a Jeppesen route chart , need to be indentified with the BFO on , otherwise you won't be able to listen to the morse code

[gsmini320]

Thanks for the quick response!

So, now there's still the question when to use the ampitude modulation of your HF frequency...

[ion_berkley]

So, now there's still the question when to use the amplitude modulation of your HF frequency...

When you need to find out the football scores on the BBC world service??

[Henry VIII]

Or listen to Atlantic Radio on 292...

[gsmini320]

Thank you guys!
I will be listening to BBC World on my next flight !

[muppet]

and Five Live for the footy

[javelin]

'Enery - I guess that will be Atlantic 252 then

[Paracab]

Atlantic 252 long gone alas. Good friend and fellow pruner used to be a jock on there many moons ago.

[Paracab]

RTÉ Radio 1 I should think...

[David Horn]

Do not know if and where such kind of transmitters still exist.

Third world countries. And France. You can figure it out from the yellow section in the AERAD.

Eg, ABERDEEN AQ 336 N0NA2A. A1A requires the BFO to hear the ident.

[Henry VIII]

Guys you'r right, Atlantic 252 doesn't exist anymore and now 252 KHz are occupied by the Irish RTE Radio 1.

Unluckily BBC shortwave broadcasting are ceased on February 2008.

[Dozza2k]

I'm still gutted about arrow classic rock going down on 675 last year. No longer will I be 'rocking around the clock'

[BitMoreRightRudder]

Classic Rock has gone??