Determining frequency reception range

[cpsTN]

I want to build an AM radio for shortwave reception. I have built regular AM broadcast receivers before, but I don't know what to do to determine the frequency reception range. Is it the number of turns of the antenna coil that determines the frequency range the receiver will receive?

Charles Sands
Smyrna, TN

 

[crutschow]

In a superhet receiver the tuning range is determined by the frequency range of the local oscillator and the IF frequency.