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.