shortwave radio

[WalterMitty]

own one.

[Oak Hills]

What can you even still get with one? Unless you're into actual amateur/ham radio type stuff, I don't see the point, since you can't get the BBC World Service, RCI, Deutsche Welle or anything else like that on shortwave.

[The Dowager Mod]

I have an old DX-394, still works pretty good.

[WalterMitty]

What can you even still get with one? Unless you're into actual amateur/ham radio type stuff, I don't see the point, since you can't get the BBC World Service, RCI, Deutsche Welle or anything else like that on shortwave.

you do realize that there is more to the world than europe?

[tik 🪀✨]

I don't own one. I was actually thinking about it earlier today as my partner and I scoured around an antique shop. If I had a receiver I probably wouldn't use it much, if ever. Is there anything worth listening to on them?

[WalterMitty]

I don't own one. I was actually thinking about it earlier today as my partner and I scoured around an antique shop. If I had a receiver I probably wouldn't use it much, if ever. Is there anything worth listening to on them?

it can be time consuming to find interesting stuff to listen to.

stations like radio china are very interesting.

[The Dowager Mod]

I had too much wine one night and listened to UVB-76 for 3 straight hours waiting for something to happen, it didn't. :/

[MATTROSE94]

I do not have a shortwave radio, but I do have a 1948 Bendix tube radio with a marine and air band tuner. I got it in a junk store in 2008 for only a few dollars and it is in pretty decent shape. As a matter of fact, It's one of the oldest electronics that I use on a somewhat regular basis (along with my 1952 Webster-Chicago Wire Recorder).

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

walter owning one does not suprise me.  He probably still has a record player that works too. 

[MATTROSE94]

walter owning one does not suprise me.  He probably still has a record player that works too. 

I actually still have 2 record players. One is a newer one from 2004 and the other is a school record player from the mid-1980s or so. I use them from time to time to play my old Rock and Roll 78rpm records from the 1950s.