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Pretty large selection of radios at our PX (and those in Seoul, Osan).

Well that is not the U.S., is it? I was talking about the U.S. Lots
of countries where radio is still viable.


Actually, it is... since the only radio any GI listens to is Armed Forces
Network. Local radio and television are non-starters here (at least the
local TV is NTSC-M, American channelization, so if we wanted to we COULD
watch it!!) There's no OTA HD, no QRM producing IBOC..

Right, but that is a skewed sample. You have Americans far from home
looking to buy something on which they can hear music/news from home. So
they want a radio. If they could hear music/news from home with a ham
sandwich, then ham sandwiches would be selling in the PX.

So it is a *very* skewed sample.

Walk into any dept store/Walmart/Best Buy/whatever in the U.S. How many
radios are for sale these days? How many were for sale 20 years ago? 40?
60? There is a definite downward trend.

Also, you never explained what "i-shlock" was.

I don't where you are coming on this. The last time a walked into best
buy there was an isle full of radios. Portables, boom boxes, table
radios all made in SE Asia and mostly China.

Radio Shack 23 on this page
http://www.radioshack.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=2032073&cp=203205

Best Buy 34 on this page
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....LLUYPTKC4D3DVA
FI?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&id=pcat17071&type=page&ks=960&st=clock+radios& s
c=Global&cp=1&sp=&qp=crootcategoryid%23%23-1%23%23-1%7E%7Eq636c6f636b2072
6164696f73%7E%7Encabcat0200000%23%232%23%231e&list =y&usc=All+Categories&n
rp=35&iht=n

My favorite Universal 47 AM/FM/SW portables
http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/portable.html

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