Jim wrote:

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 03:24:59 GMT, Chris Hill
wrote:

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:33:37 -0600, Ren Hoek wrote:

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


Xm ans sirius don't have much variety for news. Internet radio may
someday replace shortwave, once somebody invents a decent tuner so you
don't have to go hunt down and bookmark every station.

As opposed to hunting them down on an analog tuner and then writing
them down in a logbook, like we all did back in the day? Yeah, that
*sure* was easier, wasn't it?

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.

Especially if it takes one '5 minutes' to tune in!

Still LMAO,

dxAce
Michigan
USA