Alinco DJ-X7
I just bought this radio a few days ago, in the past I had a Icom IC-2 as well as many other scanners and shortwave radios.
I am a ham and have some ham radios as well.
Not to bore you with all of these details, Just to let you know that after being around radios for years, I find the Alinco DJ-X7 AMAZING .
It is a triple conversion 1000 channel Communications Reciever that fits in the palm of your hand.
I read all of the reviews I could find.
It is very easy to operate takes a little getting use to.
It is very sensitive and is so darn small. Amazing radio.
It works great on every band including shortwave.
Without some sort outside antenna in a moving car it is only so so. To much electical noise from inside the car with engine running and no external antenna.
For the price and features I think it really shines.
I can take it any where and by switching the antenna input to earphone I can do it very discretly.
Just my thoughts.