thanks analogdial:
"I've got a big JVC boombox. 2 SW bands and they're excessively
drifty, typical of radios with plastic dielectric tuning caps. I
never used it "

That's what I'm after! Still, the fact that those
boxes did have bands besides AM and FM
shows how far we've... regressed?

I would collect a few more medium to
monster sized used ones, but the prices asked
for the better brands: JVC, Rising, Golden,
etc, are ridiculous - almost twice their
msrp when new decades ago.