Picked-up a small am/fm/shortwave radio from eBay for a REALLY good price. Growing up, I spent many hours tuning in stations from all over the world on shortwave. While other kids where getting into trouble, I was spending my time listening to small, hard-to-hear regional stations from all over the Pacific, Africa, Europe, Asia, and all places in between. Listening to Radio Taipei in Taiwan right now.
These days though, the shortwave listening experience has changed a lot. Thanks in huge part to the internet and the related improperly shielded computer equipment so prevalent these days. Still, everyone should have a good shortwave radio of some sort. My main shortwave set needs a good cleaning of the various tuning and selector knobs. Going to put up a outdoor long wire antenna up this weekend.
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