I took my BCL 2000 outside and listened for a couple of hours today. It's
such a sweet radio, but most of the time, there's too much RF noise in my
house to get much use out of its sensitivity. I mainly use it to listen to
AM talk or maybe a ballgame or maybe an oldies station on FM. Dxing isn't
possible inside our house right now. We have a cable modem and four
computers all networked with WI-FI. The radio noise is unbearable with
everything going at once.

One thing I noticed today about my 2000, the radio's battery indicator is
one step below full. I got my radio in Feb 2003. On the day I got it, I
bought some cheap Panasonic alkalines (4/$2) to put in it. If the radio had
been a dud, I didn't want to waste money on good batteries. But, now it's
been 13 months, and those cheap batteries are still going (sorry Eveready)
strong.

Oh, to be fair and balanced, there is one thing I wish I could change about
this radio that really drives me crazy. The fine tuning mechanism is ok on
MW and FM, but on shortwave, especially over 15 MHz, it's incredibly tough
to fine tune those signals.