On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:46:03 GMT, Telamon
wrote:


Every time anything exciting happens anywhere in the world the servers
FAIL. They just can't handle the number of interested people. Even the
BBC servers can't keep up and at the NORMAL connection rate the sound
sucks due to the dismally low audio sampling rate. SW sounds much better.
I stopped listening to their computer audio feed because it sounded so
bad.

Hi Telemon

I havn't tried my DSL connection under those conditions, but I'm just
looking at the SWBC'ers logic of cutting SW programming for streaming
audio. Personally I don't want to be at my laptop all the time and I
keep the YB400 by my side.

I've been into SW since I was a teenager and my computer interests have
not supplanted SW radio at all. I am usually listening to SW on the SW
radio while on the computer and connection is plenty fast to stream
audio and do several other things at the same time. I was listening to
Australia on 21,740 and now 17,715. I was listening to Japan and
Netherlands earlier this morning on the SW radio.

Right, a lot of good signals out there. Radio Australia and Radio New
Zealand (15720) are my favorites. I just don't chase the DX like I
used to. I'm up the road in Berkeley.

Gene