In article om,
RFI-EMI-GUY wrote:

Telamon wrote:
What's wrong with these "the future is digital" guys? When the editorial
staff of a SW magazine advocates all things digital with advice like
listening to SW stations over the web makes it apparent that my dollars
should buy someone else's magazine that actually follows the hobby.

In the Jan 09 issue I was greeted with we are going to "greatly increase
our digital content" so I guess I'll have to go someplace else for real
SW news instead of this digital is wonderful BS. If I want to read about
computers there are several I can think of that do a much better job
then the amateurs that write in MT.

There is no excuse for being a cheerleader for DRM either. We all know
DRM sucks. Why anyone would want old digital technology to replace old
analog technology and think it progress needs to take another look at it.

Even HAM's don't want DRM polluting bands they use but the dunderheads
at MT think DRM is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Pathetic.


Hey its a digital world, live it or live with it! In fact you are
probably earning and spending "virtual money". Wall street is making
simulated trades in your IRA account right now! Some folks are even
trading in "virtual gold", spending and pretending that they have a
fortune!

Just don't send me an eQSL Card!

If they don't want to support the hobby that is their choice but don't
pretend to do it. I've bought my last issue of MT. Screw those guys.
They can learn to live without my money.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

On Jan 19, 7:26*am, dxAce wrote:
dxAce wrote:
Bob Dobbs wrote:

dxAce wrote:

Didn't MT cater more to scanning when they started out?

I seem to remember it oriented more that way, back in the day.
I even had one of their scanner filters that was almost unnoticeable
whether inserted or not.
Of course they had their own version of an SWL pre-selector (TUN-3)
that I used after a Sony AN-1 with my 2010. It actually worked!

I have a copy here of "Satellite Times" published by Grove. (Volume 1, Number 1)
a short-lived venture.

On the cover it mentions "Shortwave Broadcasts from SPACE"!

Issue is for September/October 1994. Not sure how many other issues were
published.

Apparently folded in September of 1998.





I think I received it as a "complimentary" copy.

dxAce
Michigan
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I have quite a few stacks of the magazine called simply "Shortwave" if
I remember right. Came from the UK. Is that magazine still in print? I
haven't seen it at Borders for a while. They always had a nice cover
but much of their info. was stuff I just wasn't interested in. I used
to like MT, but they seemed to "walk off the path" of what they used
to feature. The only one with purchasing in my opinion is PC. I
remember for "maybe" a year there was that magazine simply called "CB
Radio." I still have every edition from that magazine (maybe only
seven to nine) then they went out of business. I really enjoyed the
articles and pictures, very good read. Not much competition out there
IMO.

On Jan 19, 10:25*pm, Telamon
wrote:
In article om,





*RFI-EMI-GUY wrote:
Telamon wrote:
What's wrong with these "the future is digital" guys? When the editorial
staff of a SW magazine advocates all things digital with advice like
listening to SW stations over the web makes it apparent that my dollars
should buy someone else's magazine that actually follows the hobby.

In the Jan 09 issue I was greeted with we are going to "greatly increase
our digital content" so I guess I'll have to go someplace else for real
SW news instead of this digital is wonderful BS. If I want to read about
computers there are several I can think of that do a much better job
then the amateurs that write in MT.

There is no excuse for being a cheerleader for DRM either. We all know
DRM sucks. Why anyone would want old digital technology to replace old
analog technology and think it progress needs to take another look at it.

Even HAM's don't want DRM polluting bands they use but the dunderheads
at MT think DRM is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Pathetic.

Hey its a digital world, live it or live with it! In fact you are
probably earning and spending "virtual money". Wall street is making
simulated trades in your IRA account right now! Some folks are even
trading in "virtual *gold", spending and pretending that they have a
fortune!

Just don't send me an eQSL Card!

If they don't want to support the hobby that is their choice but don't
pretend to do it. I've bought my last issue of MT. Screw those guys.
They can learn to live without my money.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California- Hide quoted text -

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I agree Telamon, actually the last year or two I bought M.T. was
basically so I could keep my streak going of having complete years.
With my magazines I will tag the best reads (articles) with post a
notes. I found that last year and half of M.T. I bought that I would
only have one - no more than two articles if that posted for reference
in the entire magazine. Needless to say my streak ended.

In article
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BCBlazysusan wrote:

On Jan 19, 7:26*am, dxAce wrote:
dxAce wrote:
Bob Dobbs wrote:

dxAce wrote:

Didn't MT cater more to scanning when they started out?

I seem to remember it oriented more that way, back in the day.
I even had one of their scanner filters that was almost
unnoticeable whether inserted or not. Of course they had their
own version of an SWL pre-selector (TUN-3) that I used after a
Sony AN-1 with my 2010. It actually worked!

I have a copy here of "Satellite Times" published by Grove.
(Volume 1, Number 1) a short-lived venture.

On the cover it mentions "Shortwave Broadcasts from SPACE"!

Issue is for September/October 1994. Not sure how many other issues were
published.

Apparently folded in September of 1998.


I think I received it as a "complimentary" copy.


I have quite a few stacks of the magazine called simply "Shortwave" if
I remember right. Came from the UK. Is that magazine still in print? I
haven't seen it at Borders for a while. They always had a nice cover
but much of their info. was stuff I just wasn't interested in. I used
to like MT, but they seemed to "walk off the path" of what they used
to feature. The only one with purchasing in my opinion is PC. I
remember for "maybe" a year there was that magazine simply called "CB
Radio." I still have every edition from that magazine (maybe only
seven to nine) then they went out of business. I really enjoyed the
articles and pictures, very good read. Not much competition out there
IMO.

Well MT editorialized that digital was the way they were going to
continue and that it was going to be their focus and that really ****ed
me off. I don't like that attitude shoved down my throat so the hell
with those pathetic jerks that can't figure out if they are a computer
or amateur magazine. All I know is they have forgotten the SWL.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California