Radio query

Woden

Hi my dads looking for a personal radio for xmas. The only real criteria is that its small and that he can listen to the football on it.

His says that the football is on radio 1 and can be gotten on FM/MW but that the radio station only plays the football on MW. However he thinks that the football can also be heard on AM.

Does anyone know if this is true? as it means i can get him a nice small sony one i have my eye on.

cheers

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bkehoe

AM is MW, sure you're not talking about LW (long wave) too?

Capt'n Midnight

RTE radio 1 or BBC Radio 1 - IIRC both are on Medium Wave.

FM is stereo
AM could include LW MW SW Long / Medium / Short wave
But usually AM is the same as MW and almost all radios have it .
LW - is there anything in English apart form BBC Radio 4 or Atalantic 252 OR THE NEW RTE STATION !

Woden

he did mention lw but he said the main football he listens to is on mw, he said there was something else on lw he might listen to.

he did seem to think the football would be on am though also.

there is a sony pocket radio i was looking at that is FM/AM nice and small and there is a slightly bigger Roberts one i was looking at that is FM/MW/LW both are the same price but i would prefare to get him the sony one if it did the job

deRanged

For soccer, I'd guess he's talking about 5 live (BBC radio 5), which is on AM (693 and 909 ).
If it is 5 live, and a digital tuner, make sure that the radio can be set manually to these freqs, some radios will auto seek right past them - which is very annoying.

on another note - very old school interpretation of wireless!

Woden

yeah i wasn't sure where else to put it

anywho i picked up this today he seemed to approve when i showed it to him online

its a roberts radio thing with FM/MW/LW and it should do the job

thanks for all the info folks

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