Listening to Radio in Spain/Italy

As long as you can tune through all the frequencies, you'll be OK. European radio stations traditionally use different frequencies than North America....they don't necessarily go for the 5 khz spacing between stations. But the band of frequencies used is generally the same on both AM and FM.

Thanks!

J,

I don't believe it's going to work. Europe uses a different frequency then US.
Europe uses 50 Mhz, and US, I believe, 40 MHz.
I guess you can google it, to make sure.

I believe that Norm's answer is correct on this. I lived in Europe (although not in Spain or Italy) and the radio on my American boombox worked fine ... at least the FM stations did. I don't think I ever tried AM.

I'm not sure what Bea is getting at, but you'll have no problems picking up Italian and Spanish radio stations, AM and FM, on your American transistor radio. The FM band's spacing in the vast majority of the world is 100 Khz (.1 Mhz, as in 98.1 FM) although some stations in Italy may be on 50 Khz spacings, which may make them sound a little off-channel. AM stations here at home have 10 Khz spacings, while in Europe it is 9 Khz....all that means is that you'll find stations at odd-looking frequencies, like 702 Khz, instead of 700. But you'll still find them and be able to listen to them.

Fantastic! The radio I have in mind is analog so it sounds lik it should tune in in ok.

I once owned a Sony AM/FM digital radio that I brought to Europe and it wouldn't allow me to listen to European stations. On this model you had to enter the frequency on key pad and since the model was designed for north american use the microprocessor in the radio wouldn't allow me to enter the euro frequencies because the spacing is different. On other trips I've brought a very cheap radio with "manual" dials and had no problems with this kind of radio.

Excellent! I wil bring the cheap radio all will be well!