"running dogg" wrote

Maturin wrote:

Also, I was trying to listen for a signal on the aeronautical band.
The 2010 was picking up music from the AM/FM radio in the adjacent
room... confusing at first, since I couldn't understand why the AB
would be host to syphonic music. I don't quite understand how the
AM/FM being on would cause this to happen....

The aero band is like the police and fire bands-if you're tuning across
the band at random you'll be unlikely to hear anything unless you're
near a major airport. This is because the aero, police, and fire bands
are "point to point" transmissions. Unlike a regular broadcast station
that puts out a signal all the time, planes and towers only broadcast
when they're communicating, and are silent the rest of the time. (Same
thing with a police car or a fire truck communicating with central
dispatch.) For public service bands you'll need a specific radio called
a "scanner", go to rec.radio.scanner. The 2010 is not designed for
either MW DX or public service band listening, it's designed for
shortwave listening.

Aeronautical Mobile is allocated thousands of frequencies from MW (2000+ Khz
range) all the way up through most of the entire HF spectrum. These are all
in USB mode. Portable radios that can select "SSB" will also receive these
but may need to fine-tune to the upper sideband.

Nighttime frequencies will be lower, daytime higher for New York Center/New
York Oceanic, Gander Radio, Shanwick, etc. All transoceanic flights use
aeronautical-mobile MW and HF frequencies.

Just for starters, try night frequencies of
2.899Mhz, 3.016Mhz, 5.598Mhz, 5.616Mhz, 5.649Mhz
Daytime frequencies of
8.825Mhz, 8.864Mhz, 8.879Mhz, 8.903Mhz, 8.906Mhz, 11.396Mhz, 13.306Mhz

As to your second problem, turn off other radios and television,
dimmer-switches, low-voltage lighting and halogen-dimmers when you are SW
listening. They are all "transmitters" to your highly sensitive little SW
radio. If you have a short wire antenna with the radio, use it and put the
wire around a window or outside completely.

Good luck,
Jack