I want a shortwave radio

[Z28]

I'm thinking about buying a shortwave radio,and I don't know much about them.I have been searching the net and looking at a couple catalogs I have and all I know for sure is they have a huge price range.
I'd be very interested in any suggestions any of you fellas have.

[busman]

Z28, you could go on e-bay and get you a grundig satalite 800 millinium. top of the line. dont make them anymore. it will cost you 400 smackers though. or you could get some of grundigs smaller stuff. go to the web site universal-radio.com. or you could do like i did and buy a kenwood r-1000 shortwave radio. built like a tank. good quality. pay 200 to 275 $ on e-bay for one. i love mine. or i had a icom r-70 shortwave off e-bay. if you want to check them out go to e-bay,then to consumer electronics,then to the shortwave section. or you can go to the ham radio section, then click on kenwood,then click on recievers. these cover 10 thru 160 meters. which is basically the whole broadcast band. the kenwoods,icoms and grundigs have single side band also.

[Z28]

Paging through my Universal and Ham radio catalogs I see portable receivers,communication receivers,wideband receivers, handhelds, VHF,UHF,HF,HF plus I'm getting a headache lol
I will also watch ebay for a r-1000 like you have.
Thanks for the reply

[FOAD911]

The best shortwave receiver I own is an old miltary radio.Get your paws on old stuff.Look into Signal corps. surplus stuff.I have a BC-348-Q receiver and all I need is a butter knife for an antenna and it receives better than the crap they sell these days:) Here is a good start.> [Please login or register to view this link] corp surplus radios&btnG=Google Search

[FOAD911]

That link sucks,try this. [Please login or register to view this link]

[drdx]

If you're not sure about liking it and don't want to take a big bath, get a cheap realistic DX390 or something. If you like it you can always sort of combine your interests and get an HF transceiver that would cover all of your short wave listening needs and have the ability to transmit on the ham bands, and I will give you a friendly warning that these general coverage HF and HF+vhf,uhf have a habit of getting modified/converted to radios that are capable of excellent 100watt operation on bands like CB and other places transmitting with such modded gear is illegal. This radio could be any member of the Icom, Kenwood, Yaesu crowd with the Icom 706, FT840(cheaper, hf only), Kenwood 570, etc. -drdx