On Jul 7, 10:27*pm, DEFCON 88 wrote:
The first radio that got me into DXing was my family's Packard Bell 5
tube AM tabletop that sat on the kitchen counter. I spent hours
looking for out of town MW stations. Eventually the radio became mine
and I put it in my bedroom. Here's a picture of it:

http://i859.photobucket.com/albums/a...ard_Bell_5R1_1...

My first SW radio was a used Nordmende Transista I found in a local TV
repair shop. It had MW, FM, and 1 SW band that only covered 1.6 up to
about 5 mhz. Here's a picture of it:

http://www.transistor.org/collection...detransita.jpg

The SW coverage was 5.9-to-9.8MHz (in one band!) . Obviously , it was
not very simple to tune in a weak station on a such a small dial .