[A-DX] Kchibo kk-S500 tunes down to ... 0/zero Khz

[Marc Coevoet <sintsixtus@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

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

This means the radio uses the whip antenna for AM, LW, and downto 0kHz.
It is very sensitive too, as the signal for eg Radio Waddenzee is much 
larger when I am in my garden than with the ferrite rod.


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 from http://madeinchina.com (delivery was 10 working
days + 1 week due to the Island disaster = 3 weeks).

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