The future of shortwave?
 

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Now that we've (once again) established that shortwave is dead,
let's
go back to discussing all the cool stuff we appear to be
collectively
hallucinating as we tune around the shortwave bands.

There are two kinds of dead:

1) Doesn't make economic sense to broadcast (David's definition).

2) Doesn't exist (your definition)

Plenty of sw broadcasters do not depend on economic return. They
either have a "mission" themselves, sell time to someone with a
"mission", or are supported by a government (with a mission). It's no
longer like 1940 when you could hear US baseball games in Spanish,
sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive, on shortwave.

I guess this guy has never been to a less developed country where SW is
the only radio you can receive.

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 03:18:48 +0000, sdaniel13 wrote:

Now that we've (once again) established that shortwave is dead, let's
go back to discussing all the cool stuff we appear to be collectively
hallucinating as we tune around the shortwave bands.

Steve

David Eduardo wrote:
"a_s_t" wrote in message
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Mike;

I reckon that SW does have a future, particularly for the 3rd World.

SW started dying as an effective medium in Latin America in the 60's, and
there has been a reduction of the number of stations on SW of about 80%
since then with very few left... SW receivers are seldom seen now.

Additionally, who's to say that new technologies don't implode with
viruses
or terrorism, wrecking computerised systems? Modern TV and radio (FM,
digital) provide sanitised pap. Like other group members have stated; SW
is
a medium for the truth and objectivity.

Which explains why it seems that half the SW signals listenable in Latin
America are venagelical religious broadcasters and very little news of any
kind is available.

--
Korbin Dallas
The name was changed to protect the guilty.