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

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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