What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

One of the things I discovered about short wave radio is that it is hard to find things that are actually worth listening to. When thinking about setting up a radio receiver that I could use in emergencies, I remembered this enough to know that I didn't want a regular old radio. Certainly not the kind with the analog tuner. No. That led me to the cool computer-radios. If you look at the graphic on this site, you can see the "waterfall", which is a radio spectrum, and you can just click on the bright spots to listen. That's cool. (You can also tune digitally.) However, while I can now reliably find FM radio stations on the online radio servers, I can't find much else yet. So, that's my new plan: I won't set up computer-radio until I know how to use it and am sure that I'd be able to use it in an emergency. Even then, it might not be terribly useful, as we are kind of down in the valley. But, I'll worry about that later.