We should have LW on most of our radio receivers, boomboxes, and even walkmans. Why? Has anyone heard of MW DXing? Well there is a such thing as that, and it has been around for many years. Many distant station listeners can receive stations from North America and South America and with the LW band you can hear stations from Europe and North Africa during good conditions. The main radios that should have LW is the these cheapo shortwave radios even the ones called the S-350 DL should have it. LW is part of the broadcast band spectrum especially for the European Union and soon to be North American Union. The AM broadcast band is getting too crowded with new and repeat radio staitons, and there is not enough room to spare. The AM band needs to expand coverage up to 1800 kHz in the future or maybe 2000 kHz or 3 MHz. There is no place to get a radio station cause someone is using that frequency. HD radio is really polluting the AM bands making coverage and bandwidth limited. If we keep on over crowding the AM bands then we may need long wave for big huge broadcast stations just like shortwave. Why I am saying this is that the Electromagnetic spectrum is getting smaller than it was in the 1930's during the great depression.

Long wave is considered to be a international broadcast band just like shortwave. If the US was broadcasting on LW someone in other continents could hear the station due to the long wave lengths, Main reason why you can hear the Turk and Caicos Islands on 530 kHz and St Kitts Jamaca on 555 kHz. Below 300 kHz you can hear Ireland, Morcocco, Algeria, Germany, France. It means better access in keep touch with the world than just shortwave. Some DXer's have heard NDB's from very far away places such as far up north and Canada during optimum conditions. If we cannot have LW on our radios then least apply the band circuits in many shortwave radios. I feel that LW should be a must carry band, I am glad to see that Coby came out with a small shortwave radio with the long wave bands for less than $13.00 sold at Amazon. .