In article , running dogg wrote:

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?

No because it is a Troll. You will catch on eventually.

Telamon calls everybody a troll.

I do not call everybody a Troll.

And dxAce calls everybody a tard.

That's not true either.

You'd think these people who apparently have no jobs would have
something better to do, like some actual DXing.

What are you inferring? I have a job. Don't you get anything right?

Yes that's decades!

And it's been dying for decades.

Snip

It changes like everything else does except for the supply of people
that say it's dying.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

m II wrote:

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.

LMAO at the 'tard boy yet again!

dxAce
Michigan
USA

running dogg wrote:

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.

DX'ing? I've done plenty of DX'ing. Got the QSL's too. How about you?

dxAce
Michgan
USA

"AbbN" wrote in message
...
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 -

CB isn't dead because some big reasons:

1) Truckers keep using it religiously

2) You don't have to pay per month to use it

3) You don't need a license (although some folks
used to have them, a long time ago)

4) The equipment can be easily found (used
or new)

5) Nothing has really replaced it's niche; sure, you
can use a cell phone or satellite radio or the Net, but
for an old fashioned "party line" type of experience,
nothing has replaced it yet.

--Mike L.

"Jim" wrote in message
...
On 20 Mar 2005 06:41:33 -0800, wrote:

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.

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!

And there will be Cingular and Verizon wanting a buck
a pop for each message sent and for each moment of
usage. Once the kids today grow up and discover
that a cell phone doesn't mean freedom but the ability
for someone at work to call you 24x7, they might not
like those blackberrys and cells so much.

--Mike L.

dxAce wrote:

running dogg wrote:

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.

DX'ing? I've done plenty of DX'ing. Got the QSL's too. How about you?

Well, 'tard boy... I'm still waiting for your smartass reply.

Is this something you can't answer?

dxAce
Michigan
USA

dxAce wrote:



dxAce wrote:

running dogg wrote:

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.

DX'ing? I've done plenty of DX'ing. Got the QSL's too. How about you?

Well, 'tard boy... I'm still waiting for your smartass reply.

Is this something you can't answer?

Responding to yourself again? Talk about ego.

And to answer your question...I've done plenty of DXing, but I never
bothered to send for QSLs. I was pretty poor as a kid and my parents
balked at paying postage to Moscow. So I just wrote down what I heard. I
don't know how many countries I've actually heard, since many of my logs
are long gone.


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wrote:

About three years ago,I happened to be listening to one of my CB Radios
one night and I heard an 18 wheeler guy out there on I-20 a few miles
from me tell another 18 wheeler guy he had just got through talking to a
guy in New Zealand.Don't sell them CB Radios short,if you have one
properly set up with a high enough amp amplifier and the right
antenna,you can talk around the World on CB Radio.
cuhulin

CB is up around 26 Mhz, which is in the upper end of the HF spectrum.
Usually the propagation isn't that great up there, but I'd imagine that
every so often it can really get out.


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running dogg wrote:

dxAce wrote:



dxAce wrote:

running dogg wrote:

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.

DX'ing? I've done plenty of DX'ing. Got the QSL's too. How about you?

Well, 'tard boy... I'm still waiting for your smartass reply.

Is this something you can't answer?

Responding to yourself again? Talk about ego.

And to answer your question...I've done plenty of DXing, but I never
bothered to send for QSLs. I was pretty poor as a kid and my parents
balked at paying postage to Moscow. So I just wrote down what I heard. I
don't know how many countries I've actually heard, since many of my logs
are long gone.

Or non-existent...

I get the picture.

Plead poverty... works every time.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

running dogg wrote:

dxAce wrote:



dxAce wrote:

running dogg wrote:

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.

DX'ing? I've done plenty of DX'ing. Got the QSL's too. How about you?

Well, 'tard boy... I'm still waiting for your smartass reply.

Is this something you can't answer?

Responding to yourself again? Talk about ego.

Nope.. if you had any sense you'd see I was simply asking you a question, but since you
know little about anything, including shortwave you can't comprehend that.

Please feel free to return here when you indeed get a clue.

dxAce
Michigan
USA