To hear Hams you will need to tune the "ham" frquencies, VERY SLOWLY.
Try 7.150 to 7.30 in the afternoon (especially Saturdays and Sundays).

Also around the 3.750 to 3.900 area in the evenings. LSB for both. If
you go to 14.200 to 14.35 during the day, you will need to switch to
USB.

Like I said before, you need to tune slowly. Without the set in the
SSB mode, the signal (ham) will sound a little like a duck trying to
talk, really, that would be a SSB (single sideband) signal. That is
when to switch to USB or LSB and begin the slow tuning.

Hopes this helps (I have tuned them in on my 7600GR, so I know it
works in that mode. Good luck.

juny

On 29 Dec 2003 12:48:40 -0800, (jstass) wrote:

Hi:

Recently got an ICF-SW7600GR. Wanted to be able to listen to HAM
stuff, but no luck so far. I am in downtown Toronto if that makes a
difference. I have tried scanning on SSB - USB, but I don't seem to
be able to find anything - whenever I think I've found something, it
ends up being a regular station (I switch back to regular mode and
it's there it is another normal station.) I have been able to get
some morse code like sounds but that's not what I am looking for...

Any tips, ideas, or frequencies to try in the Toronto area. I am just
getting frustrated with the whole thing and was thinking about just
taking the radio back today...

JS