Excellent choice. TV sucks, and it does more and more every day.

How about trying a R-9700 DX? That's a wonderful radio and the price
is right. Mine came from China via air mail for $26 plus $20
shipping.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=15 051

It has great sound and is very sensitive. FM and AM are good too.
The only thing I don't like about it is it doesn't tune down to 9335
to hear North Korea in the middle of the night. But if they fire some
missiles off at anybody I think it will be on the news most anywhere
anyway. Oh and it doesn't have digital tuning, so you can tell you're
near the frequency you want but you can't tell if you're right on it.

Shortwave is noisy and sometimes fades a lot. This can drive people
crazy, especially women. I like it though because you can hear
nature. Plus if you live in the United States there's tons of
religious stations with Southern accents. *vomit*

What part of the world do you live in? Here on the west coast of the
US, you don't hear cool things like the Voice of Turkey or Radio Cairo
like you can in the eastern US. But you can hear Australia and New
Zealand all night. Between 10 and midnight there isn't that much
going on on shortwave unless you like Radio Havana. Now there's some
low technology.

Most anyone here will tell you, build yourself an antenna. It can
just be a long wire outside to hook up to your radio. If you get the
R-9700DX radio it comes with two wires you can use. Have fun and
welcome.



On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:56:10 -0600, wrote:

Im thinking of dumping my cable TV. That will leave me with only two
local TV stations to get via an antenna.

Im considering buying a shortwave receiver that I can listen to while
doing things around the house.

Is there interesting programming available via shortwave? Is my idea
sound? What good receivers are worth looking at?