http://www.radio.cz/en/article/124187

I hope not. I was into shortwave 30 years ago and returned six years ago. I
hope it continues; it's one of my main sources of international news.

slade

Interesting article. Definitely explains why there are a lot less signals
now than in the 70s

"Al Fansome" wrote in message
m...
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/124187

Slade Henson wrote:
I hope not. I was into shortwave 30 years ago and returned six years
ago. I hope it continues; it's one of my main sources of international
news.

slade

Interesting article. Definitely explains why there are a lot less
signals now than in the 70s

"Al Fansome" wrote in message
m...
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/124187


You obviously have the internet. Why wouldn't you get international
news via it, rather than fuzzy old HFBC, which went out with the Berlin
Wall.

dave wrote:
Slade Henson wrote:
I hope not. I was into shortwave 30 years ago and returned six years
ago. I hope it continues; it's one of my main sources of international
news.

slade

Interesting article. Definitely explains why there are a lot less
signals now than in the 70s

"Al Fansome" wrote in message
m...
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/124187


You obviously have the internet. Why wouldn't you get international
news via it, rather than fuzzy old HFBC, which went out with the Berlin
Wall.

For old times sake?

Because it's there?

I buy newspapers, I watch television, I get online and I also listen to
shortwave. The good thing about radio is that it can just "happen" in
the background while you are doing something else. Newspapers, TV, and
to some extent, the internet, are less amenable to that.

Radio has a certain charm about it that the internet does not. Maybe it
is simply the fact that the internet makes it all too easy.

Anyway, one really big plus is that the radio doesn't chew up my
internet bandwidth!

Krypsis

On Jan 20, 5:16*am, dave wrote:
Slade Henson wrote:
I hope not. I was into shortwave 30 years ago and returned six years
ago. I hope it continues; it's one of my main sources of international
news.

slade

Interesting article. Definitely explains why there are a lot less
signals now than in the 70s

"Al Fansome" wrote in message
om...
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/124187

You obviously have the internet. *Why wouldn't you get international
news via it, rather than fuzzy old HFBC, which went out with the Berlin
Wall.

Dave - not trying to sound like a jerk, but why do you always put down
shortwave on a shortwave newsgroup of all places? Inquiring minds want
to know. :-)

Gregg wrote:
On Jan 20, 5:16 am, dave wrote:
Slade Henson wrote:
I hope not. I was into shortwave 30 years ago and returned six years
ago. I hope it continues; it's one of my main sources of international
news.
slade
Interesting article. Definitely explains why there are a lot less
signals now than in the 70s
"Al Fansome" wrote in message
m...
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/124187
You obviously have the internet. Why wouldn't you get international
news via it, rather than fuzzy old HFBC, which went out with the Berlin
Wall.

Dave - not trying to sound like a jerk, but why do you always put down
shortwave on a shortwave newsgroup of all places? Inquiring minds want
to know. :-)

Gregg, he answered that question in another response. Makes you sound
like a jerk! Inquiring minds should try to keep up instead of getting
sarcastic!

Krypsis

On Jan 21, 5:45*am, Krypsis wrote:
Gregg wrote:
On Jan 20, 5:16 am, dave wrote:
Slade Henson wrote:
I hope not. I was into shortwave 30 years ago and returned six years
ago. I hope it continues; it's one of my main sources of international
news.
slade
Interesting article. Definitely explains why there are a lot less
signals now than in the 70s
"Al Fansome" wrote in message
news:LrmdnYn7pMdHsMvWnZ2dnUVZ_vqdnZ2d@supernews .com...
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/124187
You obviously have the internet. *Why wouldn't you get international
news via it, rather than fuzzy old HFBC, which went out with the Berlin
Wall.

Dave - not trying to sound like a jerk, but why do you always put down
shortwave on a shortwave newsgroup of all places? Inquiring minds want
to know. :-)

Gregg, he answered that question in another response. Makes you sound
like a jerk! Inquiring minds should try to keep up instead of getting
sarcastic!

Krypsis- Hide quoted text -

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I saw no sarcasm in Gregg's post - none at all - and I seriously
wonder about the sarcasm in your own. Gregg's was a reasonable
question, and it is unreasonable to expect a person to see EVERY other
post from a given individual, for a number of reasons.

BTW, Dave answered it appropriately too, even though I disagree with
him.

Bruce Jensen

Gregg wrote:
On Jan 20, 5:16 am, wrote:
Slade Henson wrote:
I hope not. I was into shortwave 30 years ago and returned six years
ago. I hope it continues; it's one of my main sources of international
news.

slade

Interesting article. Definitely explains why there are a lot less
signals now than in the 70s

"Al wrote in message
m...
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/124187

You obviously have the internet. Why wouldn't you get international
news via it, rather than fuzzy old HFBC, which went out with the Berlin
Wall.

Dave - not trying to sound like a jerk, but why do you always put down
shortwave on a shortwave newsgroup of all places? Inquiring minds want
to know. :-)

Shortwave is a synonym for HF, which is a band of frequencies from 3 MHz
to 30 MHz. HFBC is a small slice of the shortwave pie. I find it
laughable that people think that in this day and age there's a challenge
to receiving a 50 KW radio station.

dave wrote:

Shortwave is a synonym for HF, which is a band of frequencies from 3 MHz
to 30 MHz. HFBC is a small slice of the shortwave pie. I find it
laughable that people think that in this day and age there's a challenge
to receiving a 50 KW radio station.

a) All stations are not 50 kW.

b) There is the intangible "magic" of radio that some enjoy.

c) As stated previously, use shortwave for radio magic. Use the internet
if you want solid copy on programming content. There is room for both.

What is with these naysayers on a shortwave newsgroup who are
anti-shortwave?
I'm scratching my head to try to figure out why guys that are so AGAINST
something
bother with lurking around in the shadows of a newsgroup devoted to a
specific topic.

Every time one of these doomsday posts appears the creeps crawl out of the
woodwork and bad rap shortwave radio which, incidentally, is healthy and
thriving. If you look at the
article source it came from "CZ" land...so maybe in "CZ" things have changed
with domestic shortwave
but during the last year there has been countless new outlets and and
expanded shortwave coverage
appear throughout the globe.

Pay no attention to such nonsense. Regardless of what the overzealous
techno-cheerleaders
would like us all to believe, the world is not only comprised of
industrialized nations full of
brainwashed people who've let themselves become hypnotized by the Internet.
The frail and
choking Internet is rife with mushrooming problems and the portability and
ready-access to
shortwave will continue to thrive. Many countries in even the last year have
realized this and
have increased their shortwave facilities and schedules.