The Sangean 505A . Roberts is a non-trivial set..

http://www.sangean.com/worldband.html
reviewed..
http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/ats505.html
&
With a reasonable antenna, you can pick up all sorts of stuff
example:

http://home.att.net/~monster-masher/radio.htm

Dan


In article et, "Sanjaya"
writes:

Subject: shortwave receiver wanted
From: "Sanjaya"
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:37:48 GMT


"Jim Douglas" wrote in message
news:rNKzc.46317$0y.34618@attbi_s03...
Some of the Roberts I have seen are way cool looking and quite a bit of $$,
don't know how well they work but some of the wood and leather are nice
looking!

The Roberts Shortwave radios are rebranded Sangeans.
But these Roberts FM/MW/LW models do look very cool...
http://www.ogormans.co.uk/roberts.htm
Lots of longwave stations in Europe I understand.