On Jul 8, 10:20 am, "Spin" wrote:
With the majority of am bcb & sw stations going digital within four years,
why purchase a receiver that presently receives analog transmissions?

There doesn't seem to be much interest in digital radio for SW, as far
as consumer interest. For the broadcast bands, DAB has stalled in
Canada, interest is slowing in the UK and DAB is such a mess they may
try and switch to DAB+, and consumer interest in HD/IBOC is
nonexistent in the US. Only about 175, out of 4,500 AM stations have
switched to IBOC, and they are almost all HD Radio Alliance stations:

"The FCC Tunes Into HD Radio-And May Turn Off Distant AM"

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/faste...d_radio_n.html

"RW Opinion: Rethinking AM's future"

"Making AM-HD work well as a long-term investment is seen as an
expensive and risky challenge for most stations and their owners.
There is the significant downside of potential new interference to
some of their own AM analog listeners as well as listeners of adjacent-
channel stations."

http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0044/t.557.html

Canada is experimenting with FM-HD but will not put up with
interference:

"IBOC/HD radio update from CAB"

http://members2.boardhost.com/scrapb...183785740.html

Eventually, HD/IBOC will fail from lack of consumer interest.