Where can I buy a shortwave radio in NYC?

Question

Besides radioshack. I have seen the radios they have and I don't like them because they aren't namebrand.

Any major national retailers that sell them like Wal-mart(not located in NYC), or best buy.

Answer 1

Most mass marketers don't sell them and when you say something to listen to BBC, they will offer you sirius instead.

Radio shack sells them by default as they are usually the only place in most places that sell that kind of thing (however most of their selection has gone down the tubes since the move to cell phones)

look at  the brand name grundig.... as it's a top name in shortwave.. sangean is also a brand to look at (I own a old Sangean/radio shack brand as well as a Icom)

After that, your best bet is real shortwave stores such as universal radio in Ohio.... http://www.universal-radio.com/

There are may be a few ham radio stores that may sell SW radios still in NYC (I haven't seen any advertised in years)

http://www.advancedspecialties.net/ is in Lodi,NJ but has no SWL online, it may be able to order one

There is one in Conneticut called Lentini communications http://www.lentinicomm.com/cat/index.htm

but sorry I can't find anymore as there used to be some in the downtown area but they I think gave it up when ham radio kind of died and went more mail order or thru hamfests

Answer 2

Just put "shortwave radio dealer" (without the quotes) in your favorite search engine, then follow that with a comma and your ZIP. You'll get a lot of different retail locations in NY where you can look at the sets and select a couple of options. Then search the internet and see if you can get a better deal. Especially if a new set, the bigger internet sites like Amazon, eBay or the big warehouse stores may be able to beat the local NYC stores for the same product... then again maybe not. Don't forget to compare apples:apples by incuding shipping and taxes.

-a guy named duh

Answer 3

Purchase from www.amazon.com

They are 100% guaranteed because they intervine.

You send out the credit card payment, amazon gets it, the seller sends out the item, amazon gets it.

If the item meets the 100% guarantee claimed than amazon sends the item out to you and amazon sends out the payment to the seller.