Hi! I know there are one or two people on this list who own the radi referred to in this eMail so I'd be interested in your thoughts.
I think this radio is going to be a "Classic" model of radio, not so much for its performance - which on the hole is very good anyway - but for all the radios hidden features and qwirks which I seem to find on an almost daily basis thanks to taking the time to play about with the set and looking for feedback on the Net from other users. You can for example change the frequency range of the FM band and their's a choice of 3, 64-108, 76-108 and 87.5-108MHZ . The Long Wave band can be toggled on or off, if the Long Wave band is turned on you can get to it by pressing the Medium Wave button which toggles between Medium and Long Wave. The AM Step can be changed between 9 and 10KHZ which brings me to a nice qwirk in the software, on 9KHZ steps the radio will only have a frequency range of 522-1629KHZ even though Australia and many other countries now have an extended band up to 1710KHZ so how to listen to those stations above 1629KHZ? Just change the frequency step to 10KHZ, this means that - if you're in Australia - you can't use the main tuning knob to access frequencies in 9KHZ steps but you can enter them manually via the keypad, put them into memory or use the fine tuning knob. Here's a question for anyone else who owns one of these sets, what are the volume and tuning knobs made out of, metal or hard plastic? On my set the knobs are metal, someone else I know has a set and the knobs are plastic whilst another owner of this radio reports that the knobs on his are mettal and both these people live in North America, what on earth is going on? <smile>. ********** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 faceTime +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 Twitter: @grtdane
