RadioBanter - View Single Post - Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen

ka6uup · July 2nd 06, 05:18 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

Why do you bother to hang out on this group then

wrote:
dxAce wrote:

Merlin3rd wrote:

Shortwave is DEAD. Use your computer to listen to a vast arrray of
radio broadcasts from anywhere in the world. No radio, no antenna, no
static. Shortwave broadcasting is old tech, dying fast.

Yada, yada, yada. We already knew that so you'd best be running along.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Mostly, garbage is being broadcast now - religion and boring news.
Shortwave is nothing like it used to be. Listening to hams and
ultilities is also
boring. More and more broadcasters are dropping shortwave and going to
either the
Internet, or AM. Once "Voice of the Andes", which I regularly listened
to, back in the
1960s and 1970s stopped broadcasting, and the BBC stopped broadcasting
to the US, I knew shortwave was dead. So, what is the point of
plopping down hundreds of
dollars for new receivers - most receivers are basically the same and
get the
same stations. Why spend $500 for an Eaton **** E1, when one can spend
$65 for a Degen 1103.