I reside in Melbourne, Australia.

I want to purchase a source unit from the USA that is not available here in my country.

I have one concern about it though. Will the FM frequencies that the receiver picks up in the USA be able to pick up the FM frequencies in my country.

I can tell you that our FM spectrum goes between 88.0 MHz - 108.0 MHz.

We tune in our stations on odd numbers. e.g.

101.9, 100.3, 89.9 etc...

I know that both our countries have this as (if you like) a tuning method.

This is different to european countries in that they tune in at even digits.

e.g.

102.4, 105.8 etc.

However. Is this simply all I need to know to be sure that if i fork out the dollars for the unit that it will definately work here?

Hope someone can help me out.

 

All the radio stations that I can think of are odd like your first set. I have seen some that hit every digit though. I think my alpine does.

 

If your sure you get the same channels as us their is no reason it would not work. 100.3 Mhz is a 100.3 Mhz it doesn't matter where you are (if your country uses 100.3). Since radio is Anolog I wouldn't worry about it as long as you are able to dial in the carrier frequency I say your fine.

 

Yep I agree it sounds right on paper...

However despite what I have found out from one source ( http://www.sounddomain.com/ ) about USA & OZ frequencies is I want to be sure otherwise It'd be a waste or time and money.

Since I'd have to order it, ship it etc... Then if it didn't work right I'd probably have to either try and source a converter or send it back. Then there's the time and money involved with that.

 

If your worried buy yourself a really cheap stereo off ebay it doesn't even have to be a car stereo.

 

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I was thinking the same thing. Get a cheap US stereo and test it.

 

Yeah I suppose that's a good idea. It seems quite obvious, its just I wasn't so sure if there was anything else that might effect the outcome that I had no idea about.

You guys seem confident there isn't.

Since my dad lives in the states. I'm sure at some point he's probably bought a tuning device there and used it here. I'll see what he says.

Thanks for the help guys.

Time to go box with my pet kangaroo! LOL

 

The frequencies are good...

What about the bandwidth, though? Australia's the same, but they COULD be using FMn(arrowband) to cram more channels in....I doubt it, though.

 

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Kangaroos are scary Aren't they like 5 feet tall.

 

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What about the bandwidth, though? Australia's the same, but they COULD be using FMn(arrowband) to cram more channels in....I doubt it, though.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I think if they were using that their stations would go like the Euro's, by .05 instead of or .1, unlike the .2 we use in the states. I know some of the US radios (can't remember which anymore.. kenwood use to but I don't know if they still do) can be switch into Euro mode incase you need to, which goes by .1 (IE&gt; 101.1, 101.2, 101.3) or in the case of Clarion by .05 (101.10, 101.15)