wrote in message
...
I am wearing my Dickies www.dickies.com work pants,a green short
sleeve shirt and socks and I don't have an effiminate voice.

Oh, and I'm supposed to take your word for that? Bah.

movies on tv after that.In your small little "mind",go ahead and make
fun of Dickies Work Pants

Dickies are okay, I guess...but nowhere near as good as Carhartt.
http://usa.carhartt.com/

Hi,

Interesting question and interesting answer.

Well, it's certainly changed since I got back into it in 1999 during an
extremely serious back operation. I was going to be stuck in the hospital
for over 2 weeks and RS had a DX-375 on sale for $70 (Canadian $$) so I
bought it and listened to it in the hospital. Prior to that, it was 1972
when I last listened to shortwave. Needless to say I got hooked and had a
DX-394B within a couple of months.

If I were to have that same surgery today and were not a SW listener, I
don't know if I'd get into it with as much enthusiasm as I did in 1999. I
doubt if I'd have a Sat-800, DX-398 and a Grundig 400PE as I do at the
moment.

In a Sat-800 newsgroup, someone mentioned CB. It had never occurred to me
that I could listen to CB with my Sat-800 so I decided to listen. I thought
CB was totally dead, but much to my shock and surprise, it is still pretty
active around here (Windsor, Ontario, Canada).

So if CB is not dead, perhaps SWL will also survive.....at least for a
while -

Abb N

wrote in message
oups.com...

Ren Hoek wrote:
With XM and Sirius becoming popular,and with many broadcast being
retransmitted via Internet, is shortwave doomed?

Oh gosh, I'm surprised that no one has ever asked this before.

Of course shortwave is doomed. So are newspapers, broadcast AM and FM,
books, television, movie theaters, etc. etc.

In fact, eventually satellite and internet will have to duke it out,
and so at least one of them is doomed too.

How about that?

Steve

In article .com,
wrote:

Shortwave "Program Listening" is certainly doomed, but the people who
like to twiddle dials and find some distant, low power station will
always be around. There will just be fewer and fewer things to find,
eventually.


Jim


Fewer and fewer major broadcasters, but I don't see any reason to think
there'll be fewer and fewer 'things' in general, especially if 'things'
includes utilities, military comms, etc.

Jim is a Troll.
People like him have been saying that for decades.
Yes that's decades!

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

In article .com,
"Brian Hill" wrote:

Summoned you? Like in the old horror movies? With a big powerful voice,
"I SUMMON THEE!!!"


(Telamon with one hand behind his back)
"INTO THE LIGHT I SUMMON THEE!"
Ah, there you are.
SWAT!

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

If you want the Air America schedule:

http://airamericaradio.com/

If you want the BBC World Service News schedule:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/sc...s_weekly.shtml

World Radio Network:

http://wrn.org./listeners/schedules/...p?ScheduleID=2

etc.

On 20 Mar 2005 07:32:09 -0800, wrote:

By the way, I downloaded a program guide off the Sirius website because
I wanted to see what their menu looked like. However, I assume that the
program guide on their website is only a partial listing, because it
sure didn't contain much of interest. Where can I get the full program
guide?

Steve

AbbN wrote:

So if CB is not dead, perhaps SWL will also survive.....at least for a
while -

But CB SHOULD be dead. Way too many idiots with thousand watt amps abusing that
part of the spectrum. How do think dxAce earned his name? It sure wasn't from
using 4 watts output.





mike

Honus wrote:


I am wearing my Dickies www.dickies.com work pants,a green short
sleeve shirt and socks and I don't have an effiminate voice.


Oh, and I'm supposed to take your word for that? Bah.


Forgive him. He put the curlers in too tight and his TuTus are riding too high.
It makes it hard to lie convincingly.





mike

Jim wrote:


And it's been dying for decades. Young people these days don't see
the thrill of listening to fading, static-filled, muffled-sounding
gibberish on old fashioned, analog radios. These are people born
into a digital world. If it's not crystal clear at the push of a
button, they're not interested. And frankly, I'm losing interest
also. The faster these broadcasters get on the net, the better
AFAIC.



People like you are ALWAYS saying that!


g





mike

Jim wrote:

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:43:43 GMT, Telamon
wrote:

Jim is a Troll.

I am? Really? Why, because my opinion differs from yours?

Telamon calls everybody a troll. And dxAce calls everybody a tard. You'd
think these people who apparently have no jobs would have something
better to do, like some actual DXing.

Yes that's decades!

And it's been dying for decades. Young people these days don't see
the thrill of listening to fading, static-filled, muffled-sounding
gibberish on old fashioned, analog radios. These are people born
into a digital world. If it's not crystal clear at the push of a
button, they're not interested. And frankly, I'm losing interest
also. The faster these broadcasters get on the net, the better
AFAIC.

Unfortunately, you're right. Back in the 60s, anybody could buy a TO and
listen to the Cold War raging LIVE over the radio. Today the thrill is
gone. Most of the countries central to the new wars either don't have SW
services, don't broadcast in English and/or can't be heard in North
America on a regular basis with the English they DO broadcast. The
action is all on the internet. Try entering something like "jihad" into
Google and see what you come up with.

Case in point - I'm listening to Radio Australia right now. They're
nowhere to be found on the air at this time where I live, but there it
is, crystal clear on the net. This is called Progress, folks.
Given the choice of *maybe* catching RA for a couple of hours in the
morning (depending on propagation and all that crap), or having them
available 24 hours a day on the net, well, it's an easy choice to
make.

And as more people get broadband connections and shed dialup, they'll be
able to do the same.

When the old farts (like me and, I suspect, you) disappear, that's
basically going to be it. Hams and SWLs numbers are definitely
falling. It would be madness for the BBC to maintain broadcasts to
North America just so a few hundred people can post about it here and
compare reception reports.

I figure that it will take something big for the situation to change,
like Bush suspending the Constitution after another big terrorist attack
and clamping down on the net and other services like satellite and FM
relays. Hey, the Nepalese never imagined that the king would cancel
democracy and put the country under his direct rule. There have been
rumors swirling for three years that after the next 9-11 martial law
will be declared and the Constitution suspended indefinitely (they'll
never say abolished, but in effect that's what will happen). All
people's digital goodies will broadcast only rap music and government
propaganda, sort of like Radio Sawa but in English. Can you imagine the
news becoming just the latest "victories in the war to defend freedom",
sort of like Voice of Korea, American style? In that case, the few who
still have shortwave radios will become necessary links to reality.

Here's my RA reception report SINPO: 5,5,5,5,5! It will be the same
an hour from now, next week and next year.

Not counting buffering due to network overload which can cut off the
signal abruptly and completely for a few seconds at a time, and signal
degradation which can make the signal sound like ball bearings rattling
around in a soup can. Yes, SW has fades and interference, but right now
the internet isn't much better, especially if you only have dialup. I
wish people would stop being so dazzled by technology and realize that
no one method of listening is superior or perfect.


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"Telamon" wrote in message
...
In article .com,
"Brian Hill" wrote:

Summoned you? Like in the old horror movies? With a big powerful voice,
"I SUMMON THEE!!!"


(Telamon with one hand behind his back)
"INTO THE LIGHT I SUMMON THEE!"
Ah, there you are.
SWAT!

I'm not sure. Did I just get...spanked? g The thought makes me,
well...uncomfortable.