On Apr 29, 8:40*am, user wrote:
Hello,

I must have made an error, but I suddenly was under 1620Khz on sw.

I know about other Kchibo radio's with about the same design, tuning wheel +
up/down knobs, so it could exist in other models.

The trick is the following (software "feature", but a nice one):
- set the radio on sw
- tune it to eg 1850Khz
- set it to fast tuning mode
- now with the / buttons (NOT the tuning wheel) tune down to 1800, 1700
and 1600. *With fast tuning and the button you go 100khz down at a time.
- normally the radio stops tuning on sw when you're on 1620khz, but because
of the "trick" you go under 1620, and can now tune with slow/fast 100khz,
1khz or 5khz at a time. *You can tune downto 270khz (I hear Prague radio),
252 is the Irish, and RMC seems to have left 216. *I hear something on
50khz, and between 70khz and 80khz it seems to be full too...
- the radio DOES NOT use the ferrite bar, but the whip, and the tuning
sounds cleaner than with the ferrite bar. *The signal strenghth is also much
larger...

This makes the Kchibo a better LW radio in my garden than the sony icf-
sw2010D (!)

For the sync detection part of the radio: seems to be Ok, and better than my
old 2010D, which is unstable...

I bought this radio fromhttp://madeinchina.com(delivery was 10 working
days + 1 week due to the Island disaster = 3 weeks).

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The synch detection is BETTER than the Sony?

Is it sideband-selectable?

Bruce