Does anybody have any idea from any reliable source as to how many
(numerically or percentage) Americans actually own a SW radio? How many
of those would be DX hobbyists or hams, and how many would be regular
people? I was thinking about the scheme to smuggle SW radios into North
Korea to give people there access to outside news sources, and I was
thinking what if a foreign government tried to smuggle SW radios into
America to give the "sheeple" an outsider's view of their country, like
somebody in this NG sarcatically suggested, and I was thinking how many
Americans would actually listen to such clandestine sets, or even how
many Americans even know that SW exists? Just a random thought on a
Saturday night...



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"tommyknocker" wrote in message
...
Does anybody have any idea from any reliable source as to how many
(numerically or percentage) Americans actually own a SW radio? How many
of those would be DX hobbyists or hams, and how many would be regular
people? I was thinking about the scheme to smuggle SW radios into North
Korea to give people there access to outside news sources, and I was
thinking what if a foreign government tried to smuggle SW radios into
America to give the "sheeple" an outsider's view of their country, like
somebody in this NG sarcatically suggested, and I was thinking how many
Americans would actually listen to such clandestine sets, or even how
many Americans even know that SW exists? Just a random thought on a
Saturday night...

Okay folks, lets count off... I'll go first.

"One".

In article G1Wnd.543542$mD.132764@attbi_s02,
"DesignGuy" wrote:

"tommyknocker" wrote in message
...
Does anybody have any idea from any reliable source as to how many
(numerically or percentage) Americans actually own a SW radio? How many
of those would be DX hobbyists or hams, and how many would be regular
people? I was thinking about the scheme to smuggle SW radios into North
Korea to give people there access to outside news sources, and I was
thinking what if a foreign government tried to smuggle SW radios into
America to give the "sheeple" an outsider's view of their country, like
somebody in this NG sarcatically suggested, and I was thinking how many
Americans would actually listen to such clandestine sets, or even how
many Americans even know that SW exists? Just a random thought on a
Saturday night...

Okay folks, lets count off... I'll go first.

"One".

"Two"

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

"Three"

"minus 160...

















































millions and a few..."

3

3

-2=1 ;-P

Okay folks, lets count off... I'll go first.

"One".

4
the only thing I gotta do is sleep,eat,work,poop and pay taxes, everything else
falls into the 'I'll get around to it" catagory.

"wilbur" wrote in message
...
Okay folks, lets count off... I'll go first.

Don't know the answer but 600 million do in Asia (source: 2002 the
Asia-Pacific
Telecommunity) so must be a few million in the US.

The phony non-persona "tommyknocker" wrote

thinking what if a foreign government tried to smuggle SW radios into
America to give the "sheeple" an outsider's view of their country

Jerk: if more American's knew what lamebrains the rest of the world was, and
how totally helpless they are at self-government, we would not waste out
time trying to help you. Some of you would join our side for your own
survival, the rest would be vanquished. So for your own good, you could hope
that more Americans NEVER KNOW what mindless crap you perpetrate as
government.

Jack