Sherman wrote:

My friend's brother is going into the US armed forces, probably to the
wars. What's the best radio to give as a goodbye present? Not too
expensive but a good soldier's radio.

Try V Com Collections store on ebay for cheap SW radios (under $50)
straight from China. My favorite is the Degen DE1102-it has SSB and an
external antenna, the latter of which helps reception a lot. Note that
Liypn is forbidden from calling this radio a "Degen" on his site, he
just calls it an "1102". Then again, several Tecsun models have tuning
knobs, making tuning easier. If you know what frequencies you want to
listen to beforehand, a tuning knob is not really necessary. And I bet
that soldiers in Iraq don't have a lot of time to idly DX anyway. So I
would recommend the Degen 1102, I think it's around $50.


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