The history of the "right coast" FM development is pretty accurately described on page 59 of this document:
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/11595271/The-History-of-Ham-Radio I haven't quoted it for copyright reasons but it gives a sane take to all the madness of the time. 146.94 was the defacto standard repeater channel that was perfect for the traveling ham because every city had a repeater on that pair. BTW...I still have some Progline crystals just in case anyone wants to try a "new" repeater ;-) Len --- In [email protected], MCH <m...@...> wrote: > > I believe the OP is essentially correct. The "2M sub-band" didn't come > until much later - I was thinking it was the late 70s, but it could have > been the early 80s. > > Your point was why the 146 MHz pairs were more popular - because the > techs could not use the 147 MHz pairs. > > The 146 MHz segment was originally 60 kHz channels (146.610, 146.670, > 146.730, Etc.)
