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. There are
definitely fewer stations available on shortwave than there were in
the mid '80's; maybe the missing ones are on the internet, but I don't
plan on spending much time hunting for them.
Sirius has tons of news from all the major International broadcasters
+ The CBC.

Yeah, but Sirius is a subscription service. This means that, in order
to take advantage of their services, you have to give them *money* on a
regular basis.

Steve

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

-=jd=- wrote:

On Sat 19 Mar 2005 07:09:46p, David wrote in message
:

On 19 Mar 2005 12:16:02 -0800, wrote:


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
You seem bitter.

I see your special powers of comprehension are keen as ever -- about as
sharp as a donut...

was sarcastic (not to berate the obvious, but you
apprently need the assistance). If you want bitter, take a gander in the
closest mirror.

Rickets never ceases to entertain! lol!

Never, ever.... that's the 'tard magic.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

The Thrill of the Chase,Hunting them Down,Logging them In.I am Guilty of
much Dial Twiddling too.
cuhulin

Yeah, at least in the near term. But further out, when everyone has
wris****ch size, secure encrypted digital satellite two-way receivers
(hey, I can dream, can't I? :-o ), I don't imagine there will be too
many utilities and Mossad numbers stations on "Shortwave" as we know
it now!

Jim


I've often wondered about this, actually, especially in connection with
the military. The great thing about HF is its simplicity. With very
little in the way of equipment, you can send a message to someone
halfway around the world. You don't need the ability to put satellites
into orbit, the ability to run cables underneath the ocean, or any
other highly complex systems or enormous pieces of 'infrastructrure'. I
suppose we could "bet" that our access to or ability to utilize all of
this infrastructure will never be compromised; but I, for one, would
not want to make this bet.

Steve

A shirt pocket size homebrew transmitter,a key and eleven inches of wire
(11 inches of kitestring bikini on a beach babe,I can dream too,can't
I?) thrown on a bush and talk to the World. www.dogpile.com The
First Radio In The World

There are many different kinds of radios.I have heard and read of folks
who went to the dentist and then later on,they were picking up a radio
station in one of their teeth.Nothing wrong with transistor
radios,something had to come along before the transistors
though.Crystals,Tubes and some Crystal and Tube Radios have been very
well designed before.There is a certain kind of vacuum tube(s) for
radios or whatever that is still being made in Russia.I once read about
that vacuum tube a few years ago but I forget what kind of tube it is.
cuhulin

"Brian Hill" wrote in message
oups.com...
Summoned you? Like in the old horror movies? With a big powerful voice,
"I SUMMON THEE!!!"

Actually, I pictured cuhulin as having a much more effeminate voice. I also
picture him as wearing a pink tutu and little else, but I try to avoid going
there in my mind. It's not pretty.

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.I should be
outside painting on my house but it is raining here today.The Great
Escape movie is on the Turner South tv channel now and more good War
movies on tv after that.In your small little "mind",go ahead and make
fun of Dickies Work Pants and show the World some more of what a fool
you are!
cuhulin

Thats why most number stations today are run by countries that lack the
sophisticated defense communication sats. USA shut down its number
station in 2003.

Cuba for example has been running a number station that has changed
little from when it was first heard in the 1950's.