My first shortwave was a ATS-909. It was OK. I just found it lacking in
sensitivity. Also, I live in the midwest and I found the performance of
this radio was hurt greatly by the lack of synchronous selectable sideband
(SSB). The fading was pretty bad, even on signals close to my geographic
region.

Based on your budget, I second the reccomendation of a used Sony ICF-2010.
"Guy Davis" wrote in message
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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,

G. Davis
Picayune, MS