"Roadie" wrote in message
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On Apr 16, 7:59 pm, "Von Fourche" wrote:
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I'm thinking of going after a Kenwood shortwave receiver on e-bay.
Back when I got into
shortwave radio during the mid 1990's I always wanted a Kenwood R-5000.
Well, after buying two great portables, a Grundig Yacht Boy 400 and the
famous Sony ICF-2010, I never went after a Kenwood.

What about some other discontinued table top shortwave receivers that
pop up on e-bay?
How about his list from universal radio:

http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/commdisc.html

Any of these radios worth going after that might pop up on ebay
really
cheap? I would like to get a decent radio at a low cost. I just saw one
Kenwood R-5000 go for around $500.00 I was hoping to find an R-5000 for
around $250, not $500! lol

That is a broad brush sampling of discontinued shortwave receivers.
It runs the gamut from tube to electronic, analog to digi/analog to
digital. For two more comprehensive lists from the same good people
at Universal see: http://www.dxing.com/
Just select Modern Shortwave Receiver Survey or Favorite Tube Type
Shortwave Receivers.

And here is the granddaddy of all websites with reviews of receivers.
It's in german but a google or babelfish translation will get you a
lot of good information and an occaisional humorous mis-translation.
Lots of good reading about receivers that are discontinued but many of
them still come on the used market.

http://www.dr-boesch.ch/radio/radio-index.htm

To be perfectly honest, you can get a "decent" portable radio that
will perform very well for well under $200.00 But if you want to go
up a few notches to the better performance of a tabletop you are going
to have to pay a little more...

The question for you is how much performance do you need? Did the
2010 meet your needs?



For the most part it met my needs but I have always wanted a desk top
receiver. With short wave radio's popularity fading away I was hoping to
find a top notch 1990's table top receiver for a very low price.