Geoffrey S. Mendelson ) writes:
HD Radio Fan wrote:

A radio that uses a built-in generator would be much easier to carry
around and keep charged up than your other alternatives. AM, FM and
weather channel coverage is far far more imprtant than shortwave in an
emergency radio.

Only in the U.S.

The original poster to this thread is in Canada. Close enough?

Are there Canadian weather brodcasts on VHF? NOAA is a U.S. government
agency.

But presumably because there existed dedicated receivers for
those weather broadcasts in the US, Canada followed. So there is a chain
of weather broadcast stations here in Canada using the same frequencies as in
the US.

Of course, the location reference was that shortwave reception wasn't
particularly useful in the US (so yes, properly it would have made sense
to use "North America" there), since in North America the shortwave
stations are generally not news sources.

Michael