Jim wrote:
Get a Sony 7600 and a 2m mag mount. Use the 2m antenna and input it
to the 7600 external antenna jack. You can power the radio via
cigarette lighter and output audio into your FM radio or Tape player.
Full coverage, better receiver. The longer the 2m whip the better.

This is one of many that have been suggested. 2m itself is almost
non-existent around here so I am looking at D.C. to 30 MHz. An F.M.
detector on the under 30 MHz would be nice too.
So far I have seen Sony, Drake, and a slew of others so now it becomes
decision time. A unit that I could bring inside would be nice too.
I think this will be a cigarette lighter portable with a magnetic
antenna on top. That should be good for car DX'ing and even might be a
carry along on my bicycle in one of the rear racks. It would have to
bear the indignity of being wrapped in a plastic bag to seal out dirt
and then a towel to dampen vibration. I bicycle places that even a 4
wheel drive can't get to.
Sitting near a babbling brook and daytime DX'ing would not be a bad way
to spend the day.

Bill Baka