Hi,

New to the Group and it looks like there is a great deal of information here!

I recently purchased a Sony SW-7600GR and am stunned by it's ability to pull in stations. I have some questions though and would appreciate any input; I've looked in the manual and have come up short.

(1) On Page 7 of the manual it shows both MHz and kHz (Item #10), implying that one can select a preference. Yet I see no other mention of it.

(2) Is it possible to set the local time of day and concurrently set UTC? It seems that by default as you set your local time the UTC is adjusted. My UTC offset should in fact be +5 from local time, yet the radio will not set as such.

(3) With the antenna fully extended, there is substantial play on a horizontal axis. That is to say, if you fully extend the antenna and move it along a horizontal plane of left to right (or vice-versa) it will have a good six inches or so of play. I was wondering if this is normal or if something's loose where the antenna enters the radio.

(4) Is there a way to reset the radio back to it's factory defaults?

Thank you.

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, SW1073 wrote:

Hi,

New to the Group and it looks like there is a great deal of information
here!

I recently purchased a Sony SW-7600GR and am stunned by it's ability to
pull in stations. I have some questions though and would appreciate any
input; I've looked in the manual and have come up short.

(1) On Page 7 of the manual it shows both MHz and kHz (Item #10),
implying that one can select a preference. Yet I see no other mention
of it.

More likely you are reading something into it that isn't there.

1MHz = 1000KHz

So when you have a receiver that reads to 1KHz, then the real
difference is where the decimal point is.

10.000 MHz = 10,000 KHz

There's no need to switch because they are the same numbers.

(2) Is it possible to set the local time of day and concurrently set
UTC? It seems that by default as you set your local time the UTC is
adjusted. My UTC offset should in fact be +5 from local time, yet the
radio will not set as such.

(3) With the antenna fully extended, there is substantial play on a
horizontal axis. That is to say, if you fully extend the antenna and
move it along a horizontal plane of left to right (or vice-versa) it
will have a good six inches or so of play. I was wondering if this is
normal or if something's loose where the antenna enters the radio.

That's probably so you can orient the antenna. Certainly the Grundig
Satellits have a mechanism for swiveling the antenna around when it's
fully extended.

Michael

(4) Is there a way to reset the radio back to it's factory defaults?

Thank you.




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SW1073