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Originally Posted by paulsherwin
The Vega Selena series have excellent AM performance thanks to a tuned RF stage, but adding a BFO isn't straightforward because of the interaction with the set's AGC. The Selenas are also big heavy sets for portable or travel use
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Along with most 'broadcast shortwave' receivers of the era they are pretty useless for modern amateur-band reception: something like the 14MHz band occupies a few millimetres of the tuning scale and a quarter of a turn of the tuning-knob. Unless you've got micrometer-accurate fingers you'll have a real pain tuning SSB/CW even with an add-on BFO.
Local-oscillator stability's really not up to CW/SSB reception either.
There were some portable "scanner" type radios around a few decades ago which included HF-band coverage with CW and SSB capability: ICOM did one. Yes, they're digital but at least they don't drift 100Hz off your chosen frequency when you take your habd away from the tuning-knob.