On Dec 14, 10:11 pm, "Max Power" wrote:
What will bring Shortwave broadcasting back from a post Cold War backwater
... PEAK OIL

Russia (and the former USSR) have already peaked.
India and China are not oil exporters anymore -- they are importers.
Canada (1974) + Mexico (2004?) have peaked their oil production. Australia +
NZ: ditto.
Large oil provinces are no longer being discovered -- Gulf States sized that
is (excluding Gwhar, etc).
etc ...

The kinds of geopolitical empires that can be built with a ready supply of
cheap oil -- will no longer be viable.
Nations without oil will soon (over many decades) be equal as there will be
no oil.

Relay stations shut down for PEAK OIL reasons
-- Caribbean Relay Station, Antigua (BBC-DW, direct cause)
-- Tangier 3, VOA-BBG (direct)
-- Delano, CA US, VOA-BBG (indirect, funding)

In risk
-- Relay Stations on: GUAM, SIPAN, ...

What?

Ever read "Over a Barrel..." ? ( http://www.amazon.com/Over-Barrel-Br.../dp/1595550364
)

Your logic is flawed. Do you think that the discontinuance of "morse
code" on the high seas in favor of satellite communications is also
due to "PEAK OIL"?

Stations have given up on shortwave radio for other reasons more
trackable. (High operating and maintenance costs, budget cuts, votes
for other ways to spend money, and so forth).

- NW7US