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On Dec 29, 5:36*pm, "SX-25" wrote:
Ric... I'm in Wisconsin too (near the U.P.) and having a ball with shortwave. Don't listen to the baloney that the "golden days of shortwave are gone." Several shortwave stations have went on the air this past year and numerous are expanding their coverage. Disagree in the polite way. Who went ON the air in 2009? Who expanded their coverage to North America in 2009? Poland, France, Germany, Canada, Netherlands, Prague, Mighty KBC radio, Radio Japan, and many others cut back broadcasting in 2009 in English. Even the Cubans cut back in 2009 giving up parts of 6000khz at night. Come on man..... The golden days are long gone my friend. Sorry. There is always going to be types who say it isn't dying, or the types who will claim shortwave radios of the 70s were the best and everything made today is junk. Hams of course will say it is a growing hobby but it's not. Try buying a shortwave radio at Walmart, Kmart, sears etc... They don't stock them. It's because the market isn't there anymore. Not even Best Buy stocks them in their stores. Circuit City when they were around last year no longer stocked them. Radio Shack still has them but no high end models and only portables. Also most shortwave owners are Dxer's.... which is not what broadcasters want.. Broadcasters want people to tune in and listen, not just say "I heard Radio Prague" and then tune right off to dx the next station. Still plenty out there but BBC and many others didn't cut back because they hate shortwave. They cut back because it simply wasn't economically viable to keep targeting North America on shortwave with no one listening. |
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