AllenMcB wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion, though. I learned a good bit reading about
these.

http://www.rffun.com/catalog/commrxvr.html

http://www.rffun.com/used/used2.html

The R1000 was sold, but there were several R1000, R2000, R5000.

The R5000, and maybe the others has a Yahoo group ask there
about them before you buy one.

http://radio.tentec.com/amateur/receivers/RX320D

Possibly the best of the radios that are run by a PC.
(no controls on the radio).

FYI: Grundig is a European manufacturer of radios who sold out their
line to Eaton. In some places current production is sold as Grundig in
others, the same radios are sold as Eaton. Grundig also made a line of
very good shortwave desktops.

Another good used radio is the Drake SW8,
http://www.rffun.com/catalog/commrxvr/0088.html

BTW, almost every ham radio transceiver made since 1985 has had a general
coverage receiver. Many of them require an added AM filter to recieve
shortwave broadcasts. Even with the price of the added filter, they make
excelent desktop shortwave receivers.

73,

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM