Thursday, February 5, 2009

Cheap shortwave receivers for beginning hobbyists

If you would like to try shortwave listening as a hobby, chances are that you don't want to spend thousands of dollars (or euros) just to see if SWL is a hobby you are interested in. Fortunately, you don't have to spend a lot of money in order to experience the exciting world of the short waves. On the contrary, you can get a decent new world band receiver for $100-$200.

In fact, this is what I would suggest to you as a potential new shortwave listener. Just check some of the well known web stores that sell electronics in your home country. Or you might find some very cheap shortwave radios even in a supermarket. The cheap radios usually have a built-in whip antenna that can give a decent reception of the international broadcasters. And if you find out that the hobby was after all not that interesting, you can usually use the same receiver even for receiving the local FM stations. So you would anyway get a usable radio receiver!

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