When I was a kid the neat thing was turning the knob slowly on the am tube
radio that glowed beside the bed, volume up, listening to signals coming out
of the crackles. Um, that's still neat.

But today sw is better because you can get a radio that won't drift.

So -

If there is a digital radio that tuned like an analog one - not just the
knob, but the SOUND; and it was not too big, and not too much $, and not too
complicated - no ssb, no sync det, etcetera - well then, I'd like to know
about it. 12th birthday is in two weeks.


Take a look at the DEGEN 1102. It is an excellent portable radio. I
have recommended this as a first radio to several people. It is
probably the best sub $80.00 radio you can find. It compares favorably
to radios costing twice as much.

My Elmer back in 1967 let me and his son tote his coveted SX-42 several
blocks thru 17 inches of snowfall to my house. (Ya heard that before,
huh?).I was a 12 year old that. was nuts about radio. He knew
(perceived) that at the time. When I called him about the regulator
tubes running a strange blue he gave me a good answer. And when I
called him whining about why I didn't hear anything above 30 Mcs except
for 'doctor pagers' he again explained to me how the spectrum works.
Years later when I plunked down a ****ty 6 dollar National SW-54 in
front of my own kid he winds up with a mailbox full of QSLs and has
sixty countries confirmed before the $10- check for the radio clears the
bank

Naw, if I were to hafta recommend a radio nowadays for a newbie I'd be
torn across an ebay 10 dollar gook special or an old beatup S-40. And
quite honestly I don't know which I'd choose as a generic recomendation,.


or one of those Chinse stes.,64

wst