{"id":1074,"date":"2012-02-06T18:05:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T23:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2012-02-06T18:05:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T23:05:19","slug":"shortwave-radio-index-now-has-tags-for-country-of-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/2012\/02\/shortwave-radio-index-now-has-tags-for-country-of-origin\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Index now has tags for country of origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_419\" style=\"width: 146px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-419\" class=\"size-full wp-image-419\" title=\"tentec-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/ztentec.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"83\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ten-Tec receivers are Made in the USA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Several readers have written to ask where various shortwave radios are\u00a0manufactured, and if there are models that are manufactured outside of China.<\/p>\n<p>By and large&#8211;with the exception of <a title=\"Sony portable\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/2011\/01\/sony-icf-sw7600gr\/\" target=\"_blank\">one Sony model<\/a>&#8211;shortwave <em>portables<\/em> are manufactured in China, with a few possibly originating in nearby Taiwan and\u00a0Malaysia. \u00a0Chinese facilities certainly produce exceptional value for performance&#8230;but sometimes you want to buy something built in your own country, or just a little closer to home.<\/p>\n<p>Many models of SDRs, tabletop, and professional receivers are made in Europe, Japan, Australia, and the USA.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of these inquiries, we have now curated <a title=\"SWRI\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\" target=\"_blank\">the Shortwave Radio Index<\/a>, tagging each entry with its &#8220;Made In&#8221; country. If not tagged, assume the unit is made in China.<\/p>\n<p>Our compliments and thanks to those who&#8217;ve written us.\u00a0 We have to agree: country of origin is worth keeping in mind, when you&#8217;re shopping for a receiver.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click below for receivers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Made in USA\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/tag\/made-in-usa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Made in USA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Made in Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/tag\/made-in-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Made in Australia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Made in Japan\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/tag\/made-in-japan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Made in Japan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Made in Germany\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/tag\/made-in-germany\/\" target=\"_blank\">Made in Germany<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Made in Italy\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/tag\/made-in-italy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Made in Italy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Note: Please email us if you note any errors or omissions. This is a work in progress. Whenever possible, we&#8217;ve actually confirmed the country of origin with the manufacturer.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several readers have written to ask where various shortwave radios are\u00a0manufactured, and if there are models that are manufactured outside of China. By and large&#8211;with the exception of one Sony model&#8211;shortwave portables are manufactured in China, with a few possibly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/2012\/02\/shortwave-radio-index-now-has-tags-for-country-of-origin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[435,434,446,441,436,448],"tags":[449,450,451,452,453,454,455,456,457],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-made-in-australia","category-made-in-germany","category-made-in-italy","category-made-in-japan","category-made-in-usa","category-updates","tag-shortwave-radios-country-of-origin","tag-shortwave-radios-made-in-australia","tag-shortwave-radios-made-in-europe","tag-shortwave-radios-made-in-germany","tag-shortwave-radios-made-in-italy","tag-shortwave-radios-made-in-japan","tag-shortwave-radios-made-in-usa","tag-where-are-shortwave-radios-made","tag-where-are-shortwave-radios-manufactured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f4Ph-hk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}