I'm trying to figure out why there are so many anti-shortwave postings on
this group? You'd think guys who hung around here would be proponents of
shortwave listening but instead a lot of guys seem to be on a campaign to
convince us to give it up.

Short wave is as viable as it always was and new stations are coming on the
air all the time. We go through this every summer as the newbies and
techno-masterbaters , who are not very experienced or knowledgeable,
misinterpret the predictable cyclic attenuation of the bands due to seasonal
conditions as the spectrum becoming abandoned. As for the BS articles that
appear in so-called "news" magazines...just as with the mainstream news
propaganda ...you have to follow the money trail for the motives of the
articles. Most of those are owned by or driven by advertising from
companies attempting to create a need and a market so they can sell the
technologies that they are involved in.