Hello Yerodin,

Did you check the same frenquencies with the Sony radio ? (the previous posts do
not mentioned such try). If you have the whistle on the Sony too, the problem is
not in the radio.

About the antenna, you can give a try to a very simple antenna :
- coax feed line maid out from a piece of TV coax
- two thin wires, one connected to the center line of the coax,
the other connected to the shield.

You extend the two wires in opposite directions and it makes a portable random
dipole. Mine is about 5m fully extended, just because I had this length of wire.
No computation or studies to match specific frequency or having right impedance.
In buildings made of iron structure, I put it on a window with adhesive tape, or
let it hanging outside, trying to keep the two wires apparts.

This greatly improved my reception on all bands. I must say I tried mainly in
the lower bands in frequency (F = 15000 kHz) since I'm mostly listening at
night. MUCH BETTER than the piece of random wire.

I'm interested in your experience since I'm planning to buy this Kaito 1102 some
day as a smaller travelling radio than my current Sangean 909.

Charly