James wrote:
There is a tremendous amout to listen to on shortwave.

--James-

You're right. I guess my position on this is that it makes just as much
sense to buy a high end receiver now as it ever did. Bandwidth is
bandwidth. Ten years from now, SW might not be used the way it's being
used now....by the same parties, for the same purposes, etc. However,
you can bank on the fact that someone is going to use it to broadcast
something (assuming that BPL hasn't destroyed it). Bandwidth *never*
goes to waste.

The question, then, is really: Will I want to listen to anything on SW
other than big international broadcasters and the kinds of things we're
all "used to hearing" on SW. I'm pretty sure I will--largely because I
don't spend most of my time NOW listening to the Big Boys. But others
might feel differently.

The real threat to SW, at least IMO, is not the decreasing number of
big broadcasters but things like BPL.

Steve