Doug Brandon wrote:
I was heavily into shortwave back in the late 70s and up through the
early 90s. While looking around on the internet, I came across some
pages dealing with shortwave. This resparked an interest.

Back in the day I used an old Hammarlund HQ100 along with numerous
digital portables. I am thinking about getting back into it again. My
question is this: With most stations streaming on the Web is it really
that long before there's not much to listen to on SW? From what I've
read, most stations have either left SW or cut their schedules way back.

What do you all think? Is it worth buying new equipment or is the hobby
dying?

The BBC left North American relays, but that only made hearing them
more of a challenge. I like the unfiltered news on shortwave, though
you can get that on the net nowadays I suppose.

Monitor Radio and RFPI are history, but you still have Gene Scott. Why
a few days ago he was warning us about Y2K.