New: Take a look at the Sony ICF-SW7600GR. Superior in sensitivity off-
the-whip to the ATS-909, and less expensive, although they may be
temporarily hard to find. Also, the Grundig YB-400, which is somewhat
less sesnitive than the Sony but with better on-board audio.

Used: You can probably, within your budget, acquire the best AM/FM/SW
portable ever built, the Sony ICF-2010, which can be had used for under
$300. A larger unit, but outstanding on all AM/SW bands, very good
audio, reliability, etc. Check ebay.

"Guy Davis" wrote in
:

I live near New Orleans. A couple of months ago, to prepare for
hurricane season, I bought the "wind-up" Grundig FR-200 at the local
Radio Shack.

I used a set of headphones from my Walkman with it, and have really
enjoyed listening to the High and Low shortwave bands (no SSB,
though). I'm hooked -- I really enjoy scrolling through those bands.

So, right now there are two radios on my nightstand (the Grundig
FR-200 and a Sangean CCRadio Plus) which is one too many. The CCR+
has AM/FM/WX/TV (I couldn't care less for TV sound on a radio). The
FR-200 has AM/FM/SW-Low/SW-High. Both radios are amazingly good
quality units, and the $40 Grundig gets almost as good AM signals as
the $160 CCR+, but the "slide rule" analog tuning skewed to lower AM
frequencies can't compare with the completely even-scaled digital
tuning of the CCR+ for finding stations quickly (especially in higher
AM ranges).

I'd like to have the AM/FM quality (including the amazingly good
digital tuning system) of the CCRadio Plus with a good shortwave
receiver (this time with SSB) in one unit.

What do you folks suggest? Would a Sangean ATS-909 be what I'm
looking for, or what? The budget is $300 or less.

Thanks,