Radio Shack DX-398 Owner's Manual

20Notes:• When scanning, the receiver onlysearches for frequencies withstrong signals. To search for sta-tions with weaker signals, use oneof the manual tuning methods.• When scanning in a lower band,the receiver searches only withinthe selected band and stops at theupper and lower limits of the band.• Your receiver shows the short-wave bands you can receive onthe bottom of the display.TUNINGPREPROGRAMMEDSHORTWAVE STATIONSYour receiver is preprogrammed with212 of the most popular worldwideand U.S. shortwave stations. You canquickly tune these popular stations.Notes:• You cannot change the presetshortwave stations stored in yourreceiver’s memory.• You can store shortwave frequen-cies into the receiver’s emptymemory locations. See “StoringSW Frequencies in Memory” onPage 28 for more information.• International commercial broad-cast programs (often in English)usually contain news, commentar-ies, music, and special featuresreflecting the culture of the broad-casting country. Reception for thisrange is best between 6:00 PMand midnight (your time).Follow these steps to tune prepro-grammed shortwave stations.1. Find the country and frequency forthe shortwave station you want totune in the “DX-398 ShortwavePages Chart” on Page 21. Thenwrite down the page number andmemory location number shownon the chart for that station.2. Press SW, then press PAGE.3. While PAGE is flashing, repeat-edly press TUNING or TUNINGor turn MANUAL TUNING untilthe page number you wrote downin Step 1 appears next to PAGE.The name of the broadcaster’scountry also appears next toPAGE.Then, when you reach the desiredpage number, press ENTER .4. Press a number key to enter thememory location number youwrote down in Step 1. The re-ceiver tunes the station.