]Icefish wrote:
Hi,
I'm still trying my new Xmas gift - can't pick up anything except
static - can get AM & FM very well, unplugged everything around me --
but nada on SW & LW, can it be a bad radio?
Unplugged the power cord, unplugged the laptop, scanned and scanned
again...I hear static but no stations,,,

icefish..

take the radio to a friends house
at least a mile or so away from where you live and try it agn
just to make sure you don't have such a high noise level
where you live that you can not pick up any weak signals

if you still can not hear anything but static on any short wave band
then you do have a bum receiver

good luck
Mac w8znx