Make sure it ' s got a BFO Beat Frequency Oscillator , at least a BFO onoff switch and maybe a BFO tuning knob as well maybe with the switch built into that like in a volumecontrolpower knob . There are ways to add that in to an existing AMonly receiver , but it ' s not for the newbie . BFO onoff might be labeled SSBAM or such . <| sep |> For setting and views , not sure you ' d beat Loch Fyne right on the harbour , in an old fish market . It ' s part of a chain , but a reliable one with Scottish roots . Always had good , but not spectacular , food . Probably not an option this time of year , but if you can get seated by the window as the sun comes down . <| sep |> There are many ways to support people like this . For me it was to decide to leave my career and go in the direction of science for my new career . Science needs people who care . We need a public that believes in science . A public that knows science is truth . It is science that offers us hope in despair . Only through our understanding of the way the world is will we overcome diseases and misfortunes of being mere animals . If society believed in science this girl would most likely never experienced the degree of severity she did . I mean that in that we do not fund science like we do our military .