S R,

My Sangean ATS-909 would look like that to someone that walked by and saw me
using it. Sangean fills the pages of memory at the factory and label each
page by country. If you enter a frequency manually (that corresponds to
say, the BBC world service) it will automatically jump to that "page"
(which, in that case would display "England").

Many FM stations are carrying "RDS" coded info now, but the display would
not say the country -- it would generally show the call letters of the
station, name of the artist and song, etc. The ATS-909 has that capability
as well.

-- Stinger

"S R" wrote in message
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Sony makes a SW digital model that shows the country on the radio.

How is this possible?

Is the signal from the broadcaster that does this to the radio? Does it
even shows the stations callsign?

As a part of my DXing is just identifying country or stations callsigns.

Although, the more information you could get from the signal, the more fun
it could become.

One good thing about the Internet, once you have a stations callsign,
usually you could just go anytime to their website and get more
information.
Wouldn't it be great if a SW radio could do that? LOL!

I hope satellite radio doesn't replace old shortwave!

73