The Wellbrooks seem just too expensive for my budget, so I might be going for the Chinese MLA30 loop for about 30 box. It seems getting good reviews too albeit with some problem with high back ground noise?
Yes, I also agree that if there is no propagation in my location, then nothing in the world will be able to pull the signals I am after.
But the DX160 and 150, I almost got them many times on eBay, but I was out bid all the time. I failed to get hold of one until this day.
I initially thought that they were not serious enough radios for some reason. But then I read some good reviews and stories about them, so I changed my mind. I wanted one, but they are getting kinda rare these days.
But then if one is patient, and keep looking out for them, they are bound to come up for sale.
I just got hold of a used Tecsun PL-660, and I was quite pleased with its performance.
I might look for another receiver maybe this time a bit more modern and possibly current model and more upmarket radio in the near future.
I was looking at the Tecsun S-8800 and S-2000, an some models from C Crane and NRD radios.
I am still not sure about the TecsunS-8800, due to some seriously negative reviews about the radio. They say that the S-8800 is seriously poor on LW and MW DXing, and way way over priced for what it is. And chunks of the money they charge for the radio is for the Remote rather than the RF parts. On the SW, it works well, but then which radio is not up to the S-8800 on SW bands these days?
I watched this review again on the S-8800, and decided not to think about it again on the basis that it is way way too over priced for its overall performance in Europe. At £150 it would be a good buy, but for over that money, there are many more radios which offer better performance?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPcz2JpUTJc