Rikk wrote:
taking into account I like to listen to the Radio Amatuers and Utility
stations as well as SW Broadcast bands
Thanks for your advice guys,,they are................

Sony ICF-SW77

This would be the better choice for listening to broadcasts. The
Sync detector makes a big difference. In the U.K. it may not, my experience
here in Israel is the European SWBC stations pin the S meter or don't
show up at all. The long periods of fading in and out that I heard in
the U.S. don't seem to exist here.

Target HF3

No idea.

Trio / Kenwood Communications Receiver. Model R2000

Great radio, no sync detector but you can fake it with ECSS (tuning
an AM station in SSB mode). This requires a really stable receiver.

Much better at receving hams and utility stations. 90% of ham voice
traffic is in SSB (LSB below 9mHz except for 5mHz, USB above), and
99% of utillity traffic is in USB.

Good luck.

Geoff.
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