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September 13th 03, 11:56 PM
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"Don Forsling" wrote in message ... Yes it has and yes I do. The truth of your point simply points up the truth of the contention you're arguing against. In turns of international broadcasting nations and transmitters on the air and listeners using shortwave, SW has deminished each and every year since Kennedy was president. And, I suppose that within the next year, yet another nation or two will announce that they're discontinuing international broadcasting via shortwave. So ask yourself this: "Are there as many stations on the air now for as many hours as when I started in the hobby?" Your answer will be "no." It's "no" because, yes, shortwave _is_ dying. I take no satisfaction in this, but the facts are the facts and they are indisputable. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Don Forsling "Iowa--Gateway to Those Big Rectangular States" Even if international broadcasting disappeared entirely, there would still be shortwave radio. There's less co-channel and adjacent channel interference, the Soviet woodpecker is gone and the US domestic SW broadcasters are far more entertaining than the BBC or Radio Moscow. There's still hams, military, avaition and nautical communications. Still some utililties, too. Never been more pirates. I can't go more than a few days without stumbling across a numbers station. As far as I'm concerned, shortwave radio has never been better. Frank Dresser |
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