Clive wrote:
All thats really left for a new publication is
World Radio Television Handbook. Then the monthly magazines such as
Monitoring Times, PopComm, etc.


Ah yes, the naysayers bad rapping the SWL hobby. Wish they'd go the hell
back to their stupid ipods or Blackberry's or whatever other shiny
things captivate them.

First, indeed it is sad that Passport has ceased operations. This was
actually announced last summer
so it is nothing new. Apparently it has more to do with the time its
publisher wished to devote to it,
according to one announcement on QRZ.COM. I don't know why a buyer for
Passport was solicited but often ego plays a role. ("I started it. It
was MY baby. No one else gets the credit." I am not saying this was the
case but we've seen this happen in the last two years to two other
prominent radio publications.

Secondly, back when shortwave was at its so-called "peak" (as defined by
the boneheads to criticize it) THERE WAS ONLY ONE PUBLICATION FOR
SWLs...World Radio TV Handbook! And it served us amply and well. You
didn't hear the whiney victims and slit-eyed SWL critics jabbing and
poking then like today but they were there just the same.

In the last 3 months we've gained a dozen new shortwave stations
worldwide. We've seen incredible expansion of coverage of numerous
existing stations. Radio Sweden has announced pulling back, not because
of interest but because their Euro economy sucks. They are eliminating a
lot of domestic service too. The same with the BBC that is part of a
gasping and bleeding horrible economy. One entire BBC network is
shutting down as is dozens of regional FM stations. Meanwhile Eton and
Sangean's sales are increasing. Unfortunately there are no real quality
US made shortwave receivers but that has more to do with the sinister
creeps who are trying to destroy our country by sending all
manufacturing elsewhere.

Apparently elsewhere they're not as simple-minded...and gullible... as
we have become here.

Bitter, table for one.

Ten-Tec makes receivers. Damn good ones.