On Mar 11, 10:40*pm, Patty Winter wrote:
In article ,

Steve wrote:
On Mar 11, 4:05 pm, (David Kaye) wrote:

SW is affected by sunspots, by time of
day, by QRM. It requires directional antennas to get enough oomph out there
to matter.

Contrast this with a little dish uplink or an Internet connection and SW loses
hands down.

Of course, that uplink dish and internet connection require vast
infrastructures involving satellites, the industries and technologies
involved in putting those satellites into orbit, maintaining them,
etc. With SW, you need a rig and a wire. If that's defeat, it never
tasted so sweet.

Not to mention that he's totally wrong about needing a directional
antenna to communicate on shortwave.

Patty

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Very true. The night before last I worked a station on Turks and
Caicos using a QRP rig (5 watts out) and a whip antenna. No problem.

Directional antennas are great, but certainly not necessary.