to see what's there.

I started out as a AM broadcast band/FM broadcast band/Shortwave Broadcast
bands listener and dx'er.

Somehow that evolved into scanning as I found out that there were even more
radio frequencies being used for radio transmissions than just AM, FM, and
Shortwave.

That's why I like my IC-R3 even despite a lot of it's shortcomings.

It covers a very wide frequency range.

It would probably be to expensivve for me to actually get a good radio for each
of the specific frequency bands that it covers.

On it, I can listen to AM broadcasts, FM broadcasts, Shortwave broadcasts, the
regular scanner bands, VHF lo, VHF air, VHF hi, UHF, and UHF-T) or watch VHF
and UHF tv broadcasts on it.

Well, I guess I won't be able to do that last one with it once all tv
transmissions are digital in another few years or so.