Airband for voice is pretty much universal around the world. Voice channels are medium band.
The VHF airband uses the frequencies between 108 and 137 MHz. The lowest 10 MHz of the band, from 108–117.95 MHz, is split into 200 narrow-band channels of 50 kHz. These are reserved for navigational aids such as VOR beacons, and precision approach systems such as ILS localizers



From: Dan Smith <dsmith@danplanet.com>
To: Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com>
Sent: Friday, January 3, 2014 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: [chirp_users] UV-5R Plus - Wide vs. Narrow Band

> On the Chirp UV-5R Plus programing, on the channel tab there is a column
> for FM/NFN, is that the setting for Wife vs. Narrow band??
>
> If not how is the WB / NB programming done for the channels programmed?
>
> On the frequency tab there is a field for it per frequenvcy but that
> wont change the channels programmed......I think.


It's explained here:

http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/MemoryEditorColumns#Mode

which says:

> Mode
> This controls the transmit and receive mode of the channel. The following lists the common values and their meanings:
>
> FM: "Wide" FM for two-way communications (i.e. 5 kHz deviation)
> NFM: "Narrow" FM for two-way communications (i.e. 2.5 kHz deviation)
> WFM: "Wide" FM for broadcast communications (i.e. ~100 kHz deviation)
> AM: "Narrow" AM for two-way communications (i.e. aircraft band in the US)
> DV: Icom's digital D-STAR mode

--Dan


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