Radio tuning question

I have a Toyota radio 86120-60360. It has bands for AM FM and 2 shortwave bands.

I have 2 questions:

2- I never heard of having a shortwave tuner in a factory radio. Is it any good and will it work with a standard am/fm antenna?

Thanks in advance!

Bet it's not a radio for the US market-- I think in Europe the AM band tunes at the interval you describe.

I seem to remember a Sony Short Wave radio I had that had a switch to change from 9khz to 10khz steps. That leads me to believe that different areas of the world have different steps (on the AM band...).

Sounds like Daniel has it right!

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--Scott in Florida

You have a European-spec radio. It should work with standard AM-FM aerial, though you might sacrifice a bit of Shortwave coverage because the antenna isn't designed for it. And there isn't a whole lot of American shortwave to listen to anyways...

And they usually have a quick way to kick it over to American channel spacing (and vice-versa) but I don't know what it is. Did you try Googling for an answer? They have astounded me in the past.

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Dude, its a European radio, channel spacing is different and there is no switch. You just need a US radio or get close, maybe 1Khz off will still be readable.

"Scott in Florida" >there

Daniel has it totally right and it's not just a pain having a Euro radio in the US, it's a REAL pain having a US radio in a Euro-spec country.

The head unit I've got is a Pioneer Premier P59DH, a din+1/2 CD tuner. It's a nice unit, all works, but the damned radio is in American spacing.

I want to tune to, say, 90.8 (the rock station here) and I can do 90.7... or

Nick.