YAESU, ICOM, KENWOOD and other Japanese brands have made a lot of TX RX for amateur radio operators. Last 35 years. In North America or Europe, but also in Asia or South America, it is not hard to find one in good shape to listen to medium wave and shortwave. These brands don't make only receivers in 2025 and the price of a transceiver is a minimum of 1000 euros or US dollars. French makes a website with prices of secondhand TX.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201216020146/https://radioamateur.org/argus/
Prices are in euros, and one euro is 1.18 US dollar.
Price start at 170 euros
They have now a website for secondhand amateur radio equipment
Some shops sell secondhand radios.
On RIGPIX you can see all the TX made by Japan
https://www.rigpix.com/index.shtml
ICOM
https://www.rigpix.com/icom/icom.htm
YAESU
https://www.rigpix.com/yaesu/yaesu.htm
KENWOOD
https://www.rigpix.com/kenwood/kenwood.htm
