Thanks to all that replied to my question. It seems like it is another
result of the switch to digital and fiber optics or sattelites. Too bad, it
was fun to hear those far off places. I got my first shortwave when my dad
was looking at a boat and the owner had an old wooden tube radio sitting by
the road for the junk man. He got it for nothing and I had to buy a tube
for it. That was in the days of jamming stations and Cuba, the Soviet Union
and all those communists broadcasting all that stuff that you never heard
about. The smell of a radio cooking the wood to give off a burnt varnish
smell with a little burnt dust mixed in. Plus they glowed in the dark Not
the same as the modern plastic, cold as ice radios of today. Well,
everything has its time I guess. Maybe some day it will come back. The
programs were getting rather boring at times. Those two hour or more talks
about the flowers grown in some valley or how some people made their wine
didn't cut it after about a half hour. Oh well. Ric in Wisconsin.