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The End of Passport to World Band Radios
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. http://www.passband.com/category/receivernews/ If you are interested in reading any of their past comments, which contain a lot of good information, you will want to do it quickly. This is the end of an era. |
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The End of Passport to World Band Radios
"Joe Analssandrini" ha scritto nel messaggio ... 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. http://www.passband.com/category/receivernews/ If you are interested in reading any of their past comments, which contain a lot of good information, you will want to do it quickly. This is the end of an era. Yes only the best http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/books/3010.html |
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The End of Passport to World Band Radios
It is sad that Passport to World Band Radios is ending.
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The End of Passport to World Band Radios
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
"Somebody Somewhere" wrote in message ... 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. Such a shame, I probably have had 10 or so of them over the last 15 or so years. Great publication. All thats really left for a new publication is World Radio Television Handbook. Then the monthly magazines such as Monitoring Times, PopComm, etc. |
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The End of Passport to World Band Radios
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. |
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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
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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. |
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The End of Passport to World Band Radios
Bruce Watson wrote:
In , Somebody 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. But the information imparted by both those media continues to be disseminated. A lot of people got into SWL for the content. They are ably served by web streaming and podcasts. Those of us who enjoy SWL for the process and the hardware can use any kind of signal, (the weaker the better sometimes). |
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