The best way I've found to find the various active SW stations (ham or
broadcast) is to use one of the SDR-Radios like the Winradio G303/G313
or the Flex-radio SDR-1000. They offer a broad band spectrum analyzer
window which will show peaks where stations are operating. You can
then click of the peaks and the radio will set it's frequency to the
peak.

There are also the AOR (and other) Spectrum Display Units which offer
similar functionality but I haven't tried these. I find that the
Winradio G303 and G313 offer the bast bang for the buck.

Rob


lsmyer wrote:
I have about 50 stations programmed into each of my portables. Of the 50
stations, 12 are AM, 13 are FM, and 25 are SW. Of these 50, I can
usually find something interesting to listen to during the course of an
evening. Since I only listen at night, I don't waste memories on
daytime-only stations on AM or SW. The way I found the 50 was partly by
pre-entering frequencies I discovered on the internet (this newsgroup
plus other sites such as http://tinyurl.com/y4q3u4 ), but mostly just
good old fashioned scanning up and down the dial until I find something
interesting.