"dxAce" wrote in message

We can get BBC WS on satellite and DAB here in the UK, as well as MW. At
night, 0100 -0600 it also turns up on LW and FM. I'd rather listen to it
on
DAB than SW any day, although when on holiday, that's a different matter.

Those other alternatives are nice I suppose, however, they are not
short-wave.

Indeed Sir, I was merely highlighting the range of options other than SW
that are available. I enjoy HF as much as the next DXer, but the world moves
on...

For example, when I was driving around Prague, I could listen to BBC WS on
the car's FM radio. I suppose if the people at the BBC find out that only a
handful of people listen to SW in Prague, they are better off sticking it
onto FM, rather than pumping kilowatts of HF into the ether. Although that
is not to say that all SW be dropped. If I was in a remote area, I would
still like to receive it on SW, rather than getting a Worldspace RX and
paying for it twice.


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Simon Mason
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