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If you really want to get into listening to numbers stations, as well as other utility transmissions, a good receiver and antenna are useful (personally I'd say required).
My own suggestions (YMMV):
1. Avoid portable radios. Get a desktop radio. Get a used desktop radio if you must, but get a desktop radio. You can pick up a nice used Kenwood or Icom for the very low hundreds of dollars.
2. Get a radio with digital readout. You'll drive yourself crazy trying to use an analog tuner. Yes, I've used both, I started with analog back in 1978 and could never go back.
3. Avoid portable radios. They tend to overload more easily with strong signals nearby.
4. Get an outside antenna. For receiving, getting a "correctly matched" antenna is not nearly as important as for transmitting (although it is helpful, but a cheap antenna tuner can solve that problem). Even a simple longwire antenna running out your window to a tree 50 or 100 ft away will be several orders of magnitude better than an inside antenna or a whip antenna. No comparison.
5. Avoid portable radios.
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