R5 And Shortwave

[tcb4ep]

How Can I Find The Area To Scan For Shortwave Station Using The R5?
Also Is It In Wfm, Fm Or Am?

Thanks ,jeff

 

[N8IAA]

How Can I Find The Area To Scan For Shortwave Station Using The R5?
Also Is It In Wfm, Fm Or Am?Thanks ,jeff

AM.
Larry

 

[MarkWestin]

A good place to start is the "Hot 100 swl List" which comes on all the USA spec R5 radios. Here is a link to a page on Icom's US Web Site with a PDF of this list:

http://icomamerica.com/en/products/receivers/handheld/r5/default.aspx

If you have the Icom CS-R5 software, I may be able to come up with a .icf file with those frequencies for you.

Mark

 

[hackinstack]

I use my R5 for shortwave and generally find it to be "ok" but not great. If you have a really strong signal you can generally pick it up well, but tuning for weaker signals with the stock antenna is difficult to impossible. This may be due to my location in downtown chicago as well as surrounded by a lot of cement and steel.

For starters I would agree with programming in the "Hot 100 SWL" List mentioned above (some R5's came from the factory with this already in)

Right now I'm having good luck picking up 13.675mhz around 10:00-11:00am CST here in Chicago.