...or I should say Liking Short Wave on an older "classic" transistor
portable.

Recently I bought a Zenith R7000-2 in excellent condition and I'm
enjoying this radio like I enjoyed listening back in the late '60's on
my first short wave set...a Knight Star Roamer (tube version) which I
built from the kit.

Finally figured out what it is...I like the old analog dial face of both
of these radios. The sensitivity of the Zenith isn't as good as my Eton
E5 off the whip (albeit a shorter whip than the Zenith) but the Eton
doesn't "tell" me what to expect to hear on the various bands like the
Zenith or Knight radios do. I'm referring to the simple printed
designations of what the different band spectrum is allocated to
receive. This makes it kind of interesting to see if there's any of
that activity where they claim it should be. The Eton just tunes
away.....of course with a chart or a better memory I could recall
what-should-be-where when I tune but my recollection ain't what it used
to be and being the lazy-ass that I am, I don't like to constantly look
things up on a chart. So these analog receiver dial faces have a
certain appreciation by me and make it much more fun to tune the various
bands.

Next project over this holiday break is to align and calibrate the
Zenith and see if there's any more signal I can coax it to receive.

Just my friendly rant/rave...
--Bill