[BC] Odd places for SW receivers

[Rich Wood]

------ At 02:15 PM 4/29/2007, WFIFeng at aol.com wrote: -------

>The other thing that *really* puzzles me, is why did they put SW bands into
>those big "ghetto blaster" style boom boxes of the 80's & early 90's? I have
>worked on a few, and I have one that I rescued from curbside. (It 
>sounds great
>on FM & Cassette!) Why they'd put SW in there is a puzzler to me. Does anyone
>here know? :)

My first guess would be so that people in the US white areas (as in 
no signals) could receive all the shortwave Hip Hop shows.

Rich