Modification for the JP radio to work in USA

[David Le]

I had a JAPANESE FM/AM Panasonic RX-MDX7 Boom Box. Does any one know some
tricks to make ( or modification ) it to work in USA channels / frequency

Thanks in advance,

 

[Dr. Anton Squeegee]

In article <cAKgb.12631$CR5.4482@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com>,
davidtle@sbcglobal.net says...

I had a JAPANESE FM/AM Panasonic RX-MDX7 Boom Box. Does any one know some
tricks to make ( or modification ) it to work in USA channels / frequency

Doubt it's possible, but you would need to look at the unit's
service manual to know for sure.

Your best bet is probably to just get a US-specific replacement.


--
Dr. Anton Squeegee, Director, Dutch Surrealist Plumbing Institute
(Known to some as Bruce Lane, KC7GR)
kyrrin a/t bluefeathertech d-o=t c&o&m
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" (Red Green)

 

[Captain Dondo]

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 21:38:18 -0700, Dr.Anto wrote:

In article <cAKgb.12631$CR5.4482@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com>,
davidtle@sbcglobal.net says...

I had a JAPANESE FM/AM Panasonic RX-MDX7 Boom Box. Does any one know some
tricks to make ( or modification ) it to work in USA channels / frequency

I don't know about AM, but the FM band is the same; should work fine.
Have you tried it? (At least the stuff I have worked fine in Japan and in
the US.)

-Dondo

 

[John Fields]

On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 13:50:10 -0400, "Captain Dondo"
<captain@thebigsandbox.com> wrote:

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 21:38:18 -0700, Dr.Anto wrote:

In article <cAKgb.12631$CR5.4482@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com>,
davidtle@sbcglobal.net says...

I had a JAPANESE FM/AM Panasonic RX-MDX7 Boom Box. Does any one know some
tricks to make ( or modification ) it to work in USA channels / frequency


I don't know about AM, but the FM band is the same; should work fine.
Have you tried it? (At least the stuff I have worked fine in Japan and in
the US.)

---
You must have one with the Japanese-to-English audio translation module
built in. I have one without the module and I get no output from it at
all.

--
John Fields

 

[Michael Black]

"Captain Dondo" (captain@thebigsandbox.com) writes:

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 21:38:18 -0700, Dr.Anto wrote:

In article <cAKgb.12631$CR5.4482@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com>,
davidtle@sbcglobal.net says...

I had a JAPANESE FM/AM Panasonic RX-MDX7 Boom Box. Does any one know some
tricks to make ( or modification ) it to work in USA channels / frequency


I don't know about AM, but the FM band is the same; should work fine.
Have you tried it? (At least the stuff I have worked fine in Japan and in
the US.)

-Dondo

I thought the FM band in Japan was a smaller segment and/or started
lower in the spectrum than in North America.

Channel spacing, on both the AM and FM bands vary from country to country.
So in some countries (and I don't know if it applies to Japan) the spacing
on AM is 9KHz apart. Likewise FM has a different spacing. It means
virtually nothing with an analog tuner, but with digitally tuned radios,
it can mean most stations can't be tuned in. Also, the spacing difference
may not be noticeable on FM. In North America, FM channels are 200KHz
apart, but the spacing elsewhere is different. But if the radio tunes
every 100KHz, like one I had, one will not notice if you are in North
America or elsewhere, but that smaller increment works on both schemes.

Michael