Don't forget Strong Signals! Rich Wells started a great wave
[Little off topic] Rich was local to the Triangle area here in NC and regularly attended
Tarheel Scanner/Shortwave Group meetings back when Strong Signals was the site to be. In fact back in 1997 he and I were the first ones in the Central NC area to receive the BC235XLT shipped to us from Grove. I remember the ooohs and ahhhhs from my fellow radio group members when we brought them to the meetings to show them off. Rich has moved away from the radio hobby these days...I tried several times to contact him about trying to make an archive of the entire Strong Signals site but never got a reply. It was the spot to be in the mid to late 90s into the early 2000s [/Off Topic]
Marshall KE4ZNR