"James Boyk" wrote in message
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Thanks. I'll look for one of these.

I don't "get" another poster's comment about SW not taking off in the USA.
There's a huge potential market of SWL's here; why shouldn't makers of SW
radios
try to sell them?


There really aren't that many SWLs in the US.


They do so for 'stationary' radios; why not for cars?

I've read magazine articles about cars with the SW car radio General Motors
offered before WW2. It's an extremely rare option. Extremely rare because
only a few people wanted to buy it. I'm not aware of any OEM SW car radios
after the war.

There are a few radios intended for Europe or Asia, but these areas have SW
broadcasts intended for a local audience.

I think car SW radios can still be bought from off shore vendors such as
Jacky's. If there were much of a market here, I'm sure it would have gotten
the attention of Sony or Becker. Not to mention Delco and Motorola.

There were some commerically made amateur radio converters for car radios
made in the fifties and sixties. It would have been easy enough for a
company in that business to have made a SW broadcast band converter back
then. If they did make any, they weren't big sellers.


The
remark that US broadcasters "can't target" listeners here is
unintelligible to
me, as many of them do target listeners here as well as abroad. But even
if
there were no US broadcasters, there are tons overseas aiming interesting
programs here!

James Boyk



Yeah, but there's more people interested in buying multiple cup holders and
under car neon lights than there are people who want to buy car SW radios.

Frank Dresser