I've got one and it's ok for a portable radio and a novelty. It
drifts a lot and you're constantly retuning the station. It has
pretty good sensitivity (receives faily weak signals) but poor
selectivity. For instance, tuning in to 9985 kHz, I can also hear WWV
on 10000 kHz. The distance between stations on the dial means you
only have to move the tuning dial 2 millimeters. Inaccurate dial,
hard to find the same station from one night to the next. My first sw
radio was a kit and I had no idea where I was tuning. That didn't
take away from the fun. Maybe added to the mystery. Maybe a used
YB-400 or such would be better, then you could also listen to ssb
stations.


On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 02:15:52 -0700, (Jacob Shank)
wrote:

Hi, I would like to get into the shortwave hobby and i went to radio
shack and saw this SW radio. Does anyone know if it's a good SW radio?
Or should i get a different one? It seems to be at a good price. Is the
more expensive SW radios able to pick up more SW stations? or it doesn't
matter? I figured to come here for a second opinion. Thanks. Jacob.