) writes:
Anonymous wrote:
I am going on a Royal Carribbean cruise soon, and wondered about the
feasibility of bringing along my Sony 2010 shortwave radio.

Is there anything interesting to listen to while at sea in the Carribbean?
(in English?)

Sure, lots of things to hear.


Anything on some of the islands?

Should I bother?

NO! You are paying for a cruise so enjoy the many things on the boat
and on shore instead of holing up in a room or on a deck chair with a
radio.

I don't know. Radio and the sea have gone together since the early
days of radio, and there is a certain mystique to it. Marconi went
to Nova Scotia to span the Atlantic in December of 1901. Radio was
there for the Titanic, even if it didn't help much. People would run
away to sea to be radio operators on ships. Nevermind all
those amateur radio DXpeditions in the fifties and sixties to exotic
places that often used ships to get there, because that was the only
means.

Hence if someone already has an interest in radio, it's pretty logical
that they'd want to take a radio along. They don't have to use it, but
if they leave it at home, they'll never have a chance. It may be their
only chance to experience what it's like to be in the middle of the ocean
with a radio.

Michael