"0ff_r/-\/\\p" wrote in message
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Radios without a digital display are often lacking in other features
such as dual conversion to reduce images, good selectivity and tuning
stability to prevent drifting.


No doubt about it! AND, you will miss the analog display for about 2
seconds.
The cheapest portable I would consider for any type of use is the Sony
ICF-SW35.
Analog dials are dead! In this day and age, why rely on tooth floss to
turn
a dial?



Have you ever used a decent quality analog radio? Most of the analog radios
made in the last thirty years have poor tuning mechanisms with stiff plastic
dielctric tuning capacitors and no bandspread.

I have over a dozen SW radios. I'm an active listener. I have only one
digital readout SW radio, a DX-440. It's one of my least used radios. I
use it mostly to align the real radios.

Frank Dresser