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I recently picked up a cheap ($13) AM/FM/shortwave radio. XHDATA D-219. Cheap and cheerful. Feels like an analog radio, but has a digital tuner. Surprisingly good sound for it's tiny size, and a quite good and sensitive receiver, especially on FM.

One cool feature, though, is that SW band 4 happens to end right at 10 mHz, and SW band 7 starts at 15. The analog feeling tuning dial has end-stops.

So, even with the radio turned off, not looking at it (very handy for me, since I can't see it), I can go straight to WWV on either 10 or 15 mHz. 5 is trickier, and this radio doesn't pick up 2.5, 20 or 25 mHz. It has a gap between 18 and 21.

Anyway, I'm more excited about that than I really should be.

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