Shortwave radio help?

[billt]

All people at Radio Shack can do today is sell batteries. And you had better bring the old ones or they'll sell you the wrong kind.

[Rastus]

Yeah, I know.  It's an old thread.  However, for $18 plus tax I picked up a little AM/FM/SW that I took on vacation.  It worked fine.

It really does well on AM...which surprised me.  The shortwave is only AM and operates only from 4.75-23.80MHz.  So it's not a general coverage receiver and does not receive single sideband which you would want for listening to Hams on the radio.

But for $18 from Amazon...it's dang hard to beat.  I like that it has both scanning and setting frequencies which is good...but you can tune with a dial and see the frequency digitally.  Not a bad trick and especially not at this price.

It's small enough to pack around anywhere and cheap enough that you don't worry about losing or breaking it.


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9FB9K57?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title