The End of Passport to World Band Radios
 

Somebody Somewhere wrote:
On Mar 21, 12:53 pm, wrote:
It is sad that Passport to World Band Radios is ending.
cuhulin

Agreed. Guess it's just another casualty of the dwindling SWL hobby,
just like how there's very few tabletop receivers being made any more.

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The End of Passport to World Band Radios
 

Clive wrote:
All thats really left for a new publication is
World Radio Television Handbook. Then the monthly magazines such as
Monitoring Times, PopComm, etc.


Ah yes, the naysayers bad rapping the SWL hobby. Wish they'd go the hell
back to their stupid ipods or Blackberry's or whatever other shiny
things captivate them.

First, indeed it is sad that Passport has ceased operations. This was
actually announced last summer
so it is nothing new. Apparently it has more to do with the time its
publisher wished to devote to it,
according to one announcement on QRZ.COM. I don't know why a buyer for
Passport was solicited but often ego plays a role. ("I started it. It
was MY baby. No one else gets the credit." I am not saying this was the
case but we've seen this happen in the last two years to two other
prominent radio publications.

Secondly, back when shortwave was at its so-called "peak" (as defined by
the boneheads to criticize it) THERE WAS ONLY ONE PUBLICATION FOR
SWLs...World Radio TV Handbook! And it served us amply and well. You
didn't hear the whiney victims and slit-eyed SWL critics jabbing and
poking then like today but they were there just the same.

In the last 3 months we've gained a dozen new shortwave stations
worldwide. We've seen incredible expansion of coverage of numerous
existing stations. Radio Sweden has announced pulling back, not because
of interest but because their Euro economy sucks. They are eliminating a
lot of domestic service too. The same with the BBC that is part of a
gasping and bleeding horrible economy. One entire BBC network is
shutting down as is dozens of regional FM stations. Meanwhile Eton and
Sangean's sales are increasing. Unfortunately there are no real quality
US made shortwave receivers but that has more to do with the sinister
creeps who are trying to destroy our country by sending all
manufacturing elsewhere.

Apparently elsewhere they're not as simple-minded...and gullible... as
we have become here.

Bitter, table for one.

Ten-Tec makes receivers. Damn good ones.

The End of Passport to World Band Radios
 

The End of Passport to World Band Radios
 

I don't understand the doom and gloom either. As for Passport, I
thought it had come to be overrated, especially it's equipment
reviews. Plus, print publications now have to compete against online
sources of information and a world of stuff is now on the web about
shortwave, ham radio, etc. Many of these publications are struggling
for the same reason conventional newspapers (and, indeed, SW BC
stations) are struggling: people are going online and getting info
that way.

As for the the SWL hobby more generally, I again don't understand the
doom and gloom. Yes, lot's of big broadcast stations are disappearing,
but they make up only a small percentage of what one can hear on
shortwave. People's reactions here would make one think that, pretty
soon, a big swath of the radio SPECTRUM (roughly 3 to 30mhz) is just
going to disappear!

On Mar 21, 4:48*pm, "Clive" wrote:
*All thats really left for a new publication is

World Radio Television Handbook. Then the monthly magazines such as
Monitoring Times, PopComm, etc.

Ah yes, the naysayers bad rapping the SWL hobby. Wish they'd go the hell
back to their stupid ipods or Blackberry's or whatever other shiny things
captivate them.

First, indeed it is sad that Passport has ceased operations. This was
actually announced last summer
so it is nothing new. Apparently it has more to do with the time its
publisher wished to devote to it,
according to one announcement on QRZ.COM. I don't know why a buyer for
Passport was solicited but often ego plays a role. ("I started it. It was MY
baby. No one else gets the credit." I am not saying this was the case but
we've seen this happen in the last two years to two other prominent radio
publications.

Secondly, back when shortwave was at its so-called "peak" (as defined by the
boneheads to criticize it) *THERE WAS ONLY ONE *PUBLICATION FOR SWLs....World
Radio TV Handbook! And it served us amply and well. You didn't hear the
whiney victims and slit-eyed SWL critics jabbing and poking then like today
but they were there just the same.

In the last 3 months we've gained a dozen new shortwave stations worldwide.
We've seen incredible expansion of coverage of numerous existing stations..
Radio Sweden has announced pulling back, not because of interest but because
their Euro economy sucks. They are eliminating a lot of domestic service
too. The same with the BBC that is part of a gasping and bleeding horrible
economy. One entire BBC network is shutting down as is dozens of regional FM
stations. Meanwhile Eton and Sangean's sales are increasing. Unfortunately
there are no real quality US made shortwave receivers but that has more to
do with the sinister creeps who are trying to destroy our country by sending
all manufacturing elsewhere.

Apparently elsewhere they're not as simple-minded...and gullible... as we
have become here.

The End of Passport to World Band Radios
 

On Mar 23, 6:27*am, dave wrote:
wrote:
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:53:39 -0500, wrote:

It is sad that Passport to World Band Radios is ending.
cuhulin

It truly is a shame.

Or not.

Depends on your perspective, I guess. I miss it.

The End of Passport to World Band Radios
 

When solar cycle 24 takes off (apparently it may have already) there
will be lots of new listeners. And diehards,likes we are...


Agreed.
And it will be fun to augment our SWLing by watching the GPS-freaks and
satellite-reliant media at the wailing wall because of the unreliability of
the technology that they
never anticipated..

The End of Passport to World Band Radios
 

http://www.passband.com/category/receivernews/

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On Mar 22, 3:17 am, user wrote:
Joe Analssandrini wrote:
This was posted on the AOR-COMMUNICATIONS-RECEIVERS group:

Passport to World Band Radio has just announced on their web site that
all
operations, including the web site, are to be shut down by the end of
this
month.
This is the end of an era.

Why don't they sell the activities??

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When solar cycle 24 takes off (apparently it may have already) there
will be lots of new listeners. And diehards,likes we are...

The End of Passport to World Band Radios
 

bpnjensen wrote:
On Mar 23, 6:27 am, wrote:
wrote:
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:53:39 -0500, wrote:

It is sad that Passport to World Band Radios is ending.
cuhulin

It truly is a shame.

Or not.

Depends on your perspective, I guess. I miss it.

I liked the Blue Pages. The 2.5 star reviews of Chinese radios were
silly; the Drake R8B did not get everything right; and alas, web radio
is a much nicer way to make the world smaller.

The End of Passport to World Band Radios
 

Bob Dobbs wrote:
Clive wrote:


When solar cycle 24 takes off (apparently it may have already) there
will be lots of new listeners. And diehards,likes we are...


Agreed.
And it will be fun to augment our SWLing by watching the GPS-freaks and
satellite-reliant media at the wailing wall because of the unreliability of
the technology that they
never anticipated..

You think some massive solar CME or X class flare
will render those Garmins useless?


It doesn't have to be that dramatic to screw up GPS.

The End of Passport to World Band Radios
 

In article ,
Somebody Somewhere wrote:
It is sad that Passport to World Band Radios is ending.
cuhulin

Agreed. Guess it's just another casualty of the dwindling SWL hobby,
just like how there's very few tabletop receivers being made any more.

It's not just SWL. The same thing is happening to newspapers.