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>Brits don't make Blaupunkt - they are German (it means Blue Spot). Oh, I didn't think you guys made them, I just thought the interesting tuning pattern might be an accomodation for on which side of the car you sit. (a slight attempt at humor ;)) >I assume the FM is that way since wavelength increases that way, but I >don't think anyone has ever used the wavelength to identify FM stations, >which probably is the reason for most radios these days having frequency >increasing from left to right. I don't think wavelength is the solution. After all without Frequency Modulation we wouldn't even have FM. And AM would have to be configured the same way. >I think there's a technical reason to do with using the same tuning >capacitor for all wavebands, so they all have to have the tuned frequency >increasing in the same direction for all bands. That sounds plausible. I really don't want to tear into the guts to find out though. I guess the SW is in >kilocycles or kiloHertz (kc/s or kHz) while the AM (MW?) is in metres. I haven't played with SW enough to know what frequency bands it uses. Is the AM scale based on wavelength in meters? Now that I think about it, wavelength would be a function of frequency (or was it the egg that came before the chicken?). Modulating the amplitude shouldn't do anything to the wavelength. OK, now you can tell I'm in over my head. BTW, what does MW stand for? Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------- Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe