msg ) writes:
Michael Black wrote:

RHF ) writes:

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Usenet or Google this Newsgroup is Rec.Radio.Shortwave
and is about Shortwave Radio -not- "nice set of BIG T I T S"


No, once again it's not about "shortwave radio". It's about
DXing, and that includes reception on the FM broadcast band
and the AM broadcast band, and listening to amateur radio (but
it stops there, since there is a whole hierarchy for amateur
radio), and listening to scanners (with the caveat that it's less on
topic since there is a whole hierarchy for that).


Astonishingly, I cannot find the charter for rec.radio.shortwave
on the web or in google groups archives; I direct your attention
instead to this FAQ entry:


And the joke is that this was all hashed out in 2003, when "RHF"
felt it was acceptable to have forsale ads here, and used google's
fine print to legitimize his point.

And back then, I took him to task for his google-centric view and
yet he continues with it to this day.

In that thread back then, I even dug up old posts that discussed
this potential newsgroup before it was created.

"RHF" himself has posted it, yet seems to have missed the point.
It's hard to tell if he's taking the name of the newsgroup literally,
or selectively declaring some threads off topic because he's decided
it is.

I've posted something over the years, though I can't remember whether
it was before that 2003 thread, or even if it was the intro or
something else.

Even when I was a kid, "SWLing" was a pretty vague term, something you
sort of knew the meaning of (if you were interested in the topic) yet
not so easy to define.

Look in the magazines from decades ago, and you'd see that tuneable
police band monitor on top of that shortwave radio, or there'd be a
caption such as "He listens to the shortwave bands with his HQ-180, but
he's most interested in FM DXing".

"Communications World" would have the White's Radio Log in the back,
but would one issue (it was either came out 2 or 4 times a year) would
focus on shortwave broadcast, another on "Police Band Monitoring", and
another would be about AM broadcast band DXing, and so on, until it
had covered the various areas that "SWLing" tended to vaguely define,
and then it would repeat.

There was overlap because that's what it was about.

Michael