On 17 Aug, 22:31, "Dave" wrote:
I've been looking at buying a SW radio and was wondering if most receivers
offer more bands (frequencies) than transceivers?

I know I would need to have a license if I want to transmit but if I just
want to listen, then a receiver with plenty of band coverage would be nice.

I ask this because I was told that if I bought just a receiver then I would
be wishing I would have bought a transceiver to enjoy SW as a participant.

Then I read that someone new to SW I might be better off buying a receiver
and to see if they would really want to transmit as well.

Thanks for any and all help on this.

Depends on your mileage and ambitions. Current transceivers have
excellent general coverage properties but cost more. The Icom
IC-746Pro, IC-756-series and IC-7000 are excellent receivers but are
much more expensive than a general coverage receiver like the Icom
R75. They all cover at least up to 30 MHz continously, some are VHF
and UHF enabled. I suppose that Kenwood, Yaesu and other transceivers
are equally well equipped for SW DX. But in 95% of the cases you won't
hear more stations on a high-end transceiver than on a budget (R75)
receiver.