Thanks you all for the help... The last 3 of you were exactly what I was hoping to hear from. I will follow your advice (including ignoring opinions of K6AER). The off thing is that I had just spent the last hour or so searching google with various terms, including the one he posted and didn’t see kits or anything more sophisticated as I had asked about.
I miss the old heathkit it days. A good radio you could build. I will look up the kaito radios and qrpkits.com as I didn’t see those in the searches before. I was hoping to find just such a recommendation as this to go searching with more purpose than “AM FM portable radio” which IS one of the searches I had found before posting.
I think the world is becoming more coarse, and some are not as kind as they used to be. It is a sign of the times, but I really appreciate the guidance of those that offered good advice. That’s what this site is really all about.
Michael K6AER, I hope you have a good night and feel better about yourself that you have schooled me

I‘ll definitely be more careful before I post again. Perhaps I’ll spend 3 hours searching google next time before bothering the group. AND, you may want to learn to spell correctly before flaming someone else about doing the proper work on google. But I guess, “ou aer never going to learn *either* if you don’t put in the effort”

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