Collins R-390 for home use.

Kenwood TS-140S for portable, plus it transmits. Good for marine use.

Icom R-1 for wideband portable.

Tektronix 2712 for wideband surviellance.

HP 8565 and 8555 for slightly higher frequency coverage.

For antennas I use magnetic loops, dipoles, log periodics, discones and
yagis.

Those portable little Grundigs lack input and IF filtering. I could run my
TS-140S right next to a livestock fence shocking system and completely
filter out the 10 kV impulses. The DAC shortwave I had (a cheapo) was wiped
out.

The TS-140S would be ideal for you. It's 100 watts SSB transmit.

The Icom R-1 is physically too small and has bands where the reception is
very poor. There's a few birdies in the thing also. The battery is small
also. The R-390 doubles as a great anchor.

Amen!






"Capt. Rob" wrote in message
oups.com...
I listen only to short wave radio. It has a true "old time" radio
effect,
especially during solar flares and spy rays can't go over the short
wave.


What kind of SW radio? I bought a cheap S350 Grundig, not bad but kind
of limited and drifty until temps are leveled out. I'd like to buy a
cheap SW radio for the boat.

RB
35s5
NY