My first SW radio was a Knightkit R100A which I built in 1966 when I was about 22. I used it quite a bit while studying for my novice exam. Basically, I lost interest in it it and got into (gasp) CB. I sold it to an Uncle of mine who at the time, was also into 11 meters. He used it, I was told, to listen to amateur radio. Many years after he passed away, his widow called me and said the radio was just sitting around gathering dust. She gave it back to me and I cleaned it up a bit. Today, it sits in my present shack and I still use it to listen to world wide shortwave and ham operator's. It doesn't have the all the bell's and whistle's of today's rigs. But there is still something to be said about spinning a dial on a 3 gang variable tuner and bandspread dial, while the tubes glow and station's pop and crackle through the phones. This is why some of us still hold on to our boat anchor radio's because they represent older technology that still work in today's world.