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I, too, used to listen to Short Wave, though not till the early 60s-didn't have a radio with SW before then, and, besides the stations already mentioned, listened to the likes of HCJB (Quito, Ecuador), TWR (Monaco & Bonaire), R. Australia, R. Canada, etc., plus amateur transmissions, including at least one amateur 'pirate' on a frequency around 45M (6.6Mhz), who had the RSGB logo on his QSL Card. All this on one of two different radios I built from PW designs, the first a two valve TRF called the 'Denette', and the second a Transistor Superhet with a 1.6Mhz I.F., which used plug-in Denco Coils. In both cases only an indoor aerial in my ground floor flat was ever used. Between the two mentioned above, I built a SW converter which I connected to a 'Westminster' (Perdio) Portable Radio, which also worked well.