I use them all.

dead of night wrote:
I have found, having started 2 days ago, that there are three ways to
search for SW broadcasts:

1. Hunting, one station at a time, on each meter band.

I do that when I know the station, usually a favorite like Radio
Australia in the morning.


2. Scanning quickly through each meter band.

Yup, I do that too. In fact that reminds me of my first exciting
"catch" as a new owner of a Sony 2010 20 years ago. I was tuning
through the 6mhz band not really knowing what to listen for and came
across what seemed like an exotic and fascinating catch. Radio South
Africa was broadcasting a program for shortwave listenters. I later
found out it was no big deal, but I still remember the excitement.


3. Looking at a list of broadcast times and stations for your area that
someone has put together and directly putting these frequencies in.

By far the best resource for frequencies is the monthly Monitoring
Times http://www.monitoringtimes.com/ They feature a TV Guide-like
listing of shortwave broadcasters by time and frequency as well as
several well written articles. I've enjoyed that magazine for almost
as long as I've been in the hobby.



How do you do it?

Welcome to the hobby and enjoy that radio.