A nice AM radio the 148 gtl dx may well be,but its on SSB that it really ticks,hence the reason it is legendary amongst dx'ers the world over,also in its other guises as a superstar 360 fm etc.its no slouch on FM either which makes it very very popular in europe.
it may not be capable of other bands straight out the box,but if you had the know how you could convert it for many of those 10 bands,being a monoband radio though it will never do them all simultaeously like most hf rigs,but then it doesn't trade off performance for bandwidth like most of them do,incidentally it also does CW as well,which makes it flexable for ham use,its selectivity is superb and its sensitivity is above average for multimode radios.
it isn't really all that useful? you might want to explain that to the thousands of users both amateur and cb'er who would never part with it and who use it daily.
as for the other modes,like i said before,radio is about talking,if you want to let your computer do the talking for you,you might find broadband or a mobile phone a far better way of communicating than any hf radio,certainly they are far more reliable.
why shouldn't people use high quality cb's on 10m? if thats a no no then that is snobbery,especially as many of them perform better on 10m (as those in the know are well aware of) than wideband hf radios which are generally deaf by comparison and lack selectivity,unless very pricey after sale optional filters are added,because the ones supplied suck.
