Changing the beginning/lower frequency of a band on a PL-880 and H-501x

[epii]

To begin, if I'm posting this question in the wrong forum someone please let me know and I'll gladly repost in the right one.

I'm trying to figure out how to change the beginning/lower frequency of a band, i.e., if on the PL-880 and H-501x the 49m band begins at 5900 kHz, how do I change it to, say, 5800 kHz? FWIW, I've read the manual and researched the internet - doubtless it's something simple - but have been able to come up with a way to do it. Any pearls of wisdom would be most welcome.

 

[13dka]

I don't think that's possible, I wouldn't know of any portable (or any other radio that even has a concept of SW broadcast bands) that lets you change the (internationally defined by the WRC/ITU and therefore pretty invariable) broadcast band limits. FM is different because there are 3 regions with different FM band ranges in the world and ham band allocations differ too between regions, but not the SWBC bands.

 

[epii]

Now I know I don't need to worry about that any more . Thank you!

 

[Boombox]

There are a few other radios that have the same issue. I just tune to the lowest used frequency I know of and tune upwards, which I'll generally do anyways when tuning the SW broadcast bands.

On radios that have the set bands option, I will use it to toggle from meter band to meter band just to see what's going on.

 

[epii]

Boombox, thanks for the reply... that's pretty much what I've been doing. I've been advised that the ITU international broadcasting bands are probably the closest thing to a good reference point so I'm going to go with that.