"tommyknocker" wrote in message
...
[snip]

Actually, most console radios had shortwave. But as a glance at a dial
of a 1930s console radio will tell you, this was intended for listening
to Europe-all the listings on the dial were for European countries.

[snip]

There seems to have been some domestic SW activity in the pre-war era.

Most of these were active before the war:

http://members.aol.com/jeff560/1947sw.html

The Apex stations were experimental AM Hi Fi broadcasters:

http://members.aol.com/jeff560/1939apex.html

There were alot more experimental stations which came and went.

Frank Dresser