Re: radio freqs (was: floating-point abuse in 2.1.113)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 5 Aug 1998 01:24:09 +0100 (BST)

> > AFAIK, FM bands are defined from 87.5 up to 108.0 MHz now (there was
> > a time when the upper limit was set to 100, later 104).
> > Please re-check the values above...
>
> AFAIK, Japan uses the FM band from 76 up to 108 MHz...

Read the API spec and you'll get the idea.

Those values are the range the device supports. They are not the range of
some formally specified FM band set by a radio authority. It doesnt matter
if you have japanese FM at 79MHz a card thats 85-106 Mhz wont tune it

Alan

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