"Bob Campbell" wrote in message
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Phil Kane wrote:
On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:07:23 -0700, wrote:
I don't care, because when I want to do distant listening, I am not
stuck back in World War 2. I am in the 21st century and use the
internet to listen as far away as London or Japan or Australia.
It's the difference between seeing a picture of some distant landmark
and going there and seeing it firsthand. The fun is in receiving it
on HF/SW.
Why? Because of the challenge/difficulty? Not everyone wants a
challenge - some just want to listen to a program. The internet also
adds crystal clarity with no fading 24 hours a day, not just when
"conditions are right"!
That isn't the point of DX-ing. If you never tried tuning in a distant radio
station on an AM or short-wave radio, you're probably not going to
understand what they're talking about. There was something exciting about
receiving a radio station from another state, or another country, that is
difficult to describe. Perhaps DX-ing is something from a bygone era. But
whatever it is you're doing on the World Wide Web is not "DX-ing". It is
simply the internet working properly.
Listening to it on the internet is like shooting fish in a
barrel.
Yeah, nothing like making something *easy* so more people can do it!
How dare they!?!
They can and they should. But calling it "DX-ing" is a misnomer. DX-ing is
the hobby of tweaking your analog receiver and antenna to receive distant
radio stations, patiently waiting for the right conditions, and collecting
enough program information to write a reception report, and then receiving a
card or letter from the station confirming your report. Typing in a URL and
hearing the audio feed of a station over the internet is called "surfing".