Yo, buckwheat...you were the one who said:

"A $500 dollar portable is still just a portable. (It's also an
extremely bad deal, but that's a story for another time...)"

Before you can hope to post something meaningful, it is really
important that your bring you thinking and experience forward about 5
decades. Consider reading 25 years of back copies of publications such
as Monitoring Times, Passport to World Band Radio (and it's predecessor
RDI) and World Radio TV Handbook as a start.