Brian Denley wrote:
I still wonder what the sales level has been for shortwave receivers for the
last three or four years. I have never seen any data but I wonder how
dismal the sales were and how much the web hurt. The number of people
willing to shell out many hundreds of $$ for a shortwave radio may have
shrunk to a very small number. Anyone seen any sales data for the last crop
of receivers (R8B, R-75, RX-350, NRD-545)?

I don't know of a reliable source that would consolidate sales volume
for shortwave receivers. I'm sure the folks at WRTH, Grove and PBWR
have a pretty good sense for the way sales are going, getting them to
release anything might be impossible. Unfortunately we can infer
not-too-good-news about the volume of sales by looking at the number of
shortwave retail outlets that have closed and the number of companies
that dropped out of the shortwave market.