Hi Justin,

I am not familiar with your particular radio, so some of this is guess
work.

Some radios do not cover all of the shortwave frequencies, which end at
30 MHz. My guess is that yours does not have coverage above 26.1 MHz.
All you are missing really are the CB channels and one ham radio band.


Probably when you listen to the AM band, the kHz will display instead
of MHz. When you listen to shortwave (SW) or FM, then MHz will
display. Don't worry about this. By the way, 1000 kHz (kilohertz) is
the same thing as 1.000 MHz (megahertz) Just math.

The display in your radio is probably a "generic" one that is used by
the manufacturer for many different radios. Your particular one doesnt
cover AIR, LW or MARINE - so you never see that "light up" in your
display. Other radios may include these bands. Sounds like an
all-purpose display and those things that are "activated/designed" into
your radio will light up the appropriate segments of the display.

Nearly all radios with AM band coverage have a small loop antenna
inside, known as a ferrite rod. WHen listening to AM, move your radio
around until you get the best reception (you are aiming the little
internal ferrite rod antenna). All of the other bands, use the whip
antenna...so you don't need to rotate the radio on SW, FM. WX, TV.

AM: 10kHz
FM: 200KhZ
SW: 5kHz
TV: CH 1
WX: 25kHz

These numbers above are references to the tuning steps in your radio
for each of the bands. So on AM, you tune in 10 kHz steps. Example,
600 kHz, 610 kHz and so on. Shortwave is increments of 5 kHz, which is
fine for listening to international broadcast stations. TV, WX
(weather) and FM have the normal tuning increments you would find
standard.

As a starting point, listen to shortwave stations between 5.0 and 10.0
MHz. You will hear most of them in that range.

Welcome to shortwave radio. It's fun.


wrote:
I bought this SW radio on sharperimage.com, and it was delivered just
now,
http://www.sharperimage.com/us/en/ca...uct/sku__CT800

and have a question about tunning. It won't go past 26.10MHz. When I
try to enter in a number bigger than that I get an error. How can I
get it to display the KHz stations. When I hold the radio a certain
way I can see it says KHz, but it won't actually display KHz, only MHz.
It also shows a decimal point, but the book says to ignore it when
entering a station. Also I can see AIR, LW and MARINE when
I hold the radio a certain way. All that I know it gets is AM/FM/SW/TV
and weather bands, the book says nothing about MARINE bands. Also it
says in the book,
A ferrite rod AM antennais located inside the unit. Position the unit
to recieve the best AM reception.
AM: 10kHz
FM: 200KhZ
SW: 5kHz
TV: CH 1
WX: 25kHz
What does this mean? Sorry for all the questions, I'm just trying to
figure all this out.

Thanks, Justin