ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade Non-US Electrical Systems & Trades And yet another record player thread...

Now that is unusual.

The weirdest player I ever saw was a novelty item some years back in the shape of a model car which just rode around the record which you placed on a flat surface. Hardly hi-fi, and I hate to think what it did to any record unlucky enough to be played that way!

Re the FM band, British police used to use the section just above 100MHz, as our original broadcast allocation wasn't extended right up to 108MHz until the 1980s.

The section just below 88MHz is low-band PMR (Private Mobile Radio), commonly used by breakdown and utility vehicles, etc.

In the U.S., the sound carrier for TV channel 6 is immediately below the FM broadcast band, and can be received on some sets.