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"Shortwave is actually experiencing a resurgence"
Shortwave is actually experiencing a resurgence. It's strange but true, so
what do we base our findings on? Mainly on the research carried out by the Mighty Merlin Communications, they that operate transmitters across the World on behalf of the BBC. This is what they had to say: "Shortwave radio listeners are growing globally, with shortwave penetration at its highest in the developing countries. That is not to say that shortwave is not having an impact in the Western world. Recent surveys revealed that 97% of regular business travellers listened to international shortwave." This increase in the shortwave audience, according to Merlin, is "spelt out dramatically by just one factory in China that is frantically producing 300,000 shortwave radio sets per month just to support demand. Grundig in America report growth each year on their sales of shortwave receivers. There are at least 600 million shortwave radio sets worldwide." In France, according to a Merlin survey, 70% of households with radio have access to shortwave. In Slovakia, the figure is 77%. "What is most interesting," according to Merlin, "is the growth over the last 10 years in shortwave usage by business travellers, diplomats, aid workers and others who move about the world as a result of their jobs. This change has occurred because of the portability of new sets and the simplicity of their use. Modern synthesized sets, which have the facility of actually entering the precise frequency number, made shortwave easy for everyone. People learned to pre-tune their sets, forgetting about kHz, MHz and wavebands. The new sets went in pockets, handbags and briefcases. Now sets weigh as little as 220 grams and are easily available and affordable." Teledifusion de France, which operates Radio France International's extensive shortwave transmitter network, says that "an estimated 2.5 billion people tune in to programmes broadcast on shortwave, and about a billion receivers pick up shortwave transmissions. At any given moment, over 200 million receivers are tuned in to shortwave broadcasts. Shortwave remains the only means of reaching a broad audience anywhere in the world, via a simple portable radio that can be bought for around $25. Listeners include expatriates, business travellers, tourists, or simply people who want to hear programmes in a language other than their own or who want to open a new window on the world. It doesn't matter where you are in the World, with shortwave you can always be in touch with Europa Radio International and you can't do that with the Internet or Sky satellite can you? There's always someone who will want to use the PC or watch the latest episode of the Simpsons. So get yourself a decent receiver, preferably with digital readout, check out our front page for the next transmission dates and times and come over and join us, there's a whole New World to explore. Write to us c/o PO Box 299, Kent CT5 2YA, UK E-mail to http://www.europaradiointernational.co.uk/shortwave.htm |
"Mike Terry" wrote in message ... Shortwave is actually experiencing a resurgence. It's strange but true, so what do we base our findings on? Mainly on the research carried out by the Mighty Merlin Communications, they that operate transmitters across the World on behalf of the BBC. This is what they had to say: "Shortwave radio listeners are growing globally, with shortwave penetration at its highest in the developing countries. That is not to say that shortwave is not having an impact in the Western world. Recent surveys revealed that 97% of regular business travellers listened to international shortwave." This increase in the shortwave audience, according to Merlin, is "spelt out dramatically by just one factory in China that is frantically producing 300,000 shortwave radio sets per month just to support demand. Grundig in America report growth each year on their sales of shortwave receivers. There are at least 600 million shortwave radio sets worldwide." In France, according to a Merlin survey, 70% of households with radio have access to shortwave. In Slovakia, the figure is 77%. "What is most interesting," according to Merlin, "is the growth over the last 10 years in shortwave usage by business travellers, diplomats, aid workers and others who move about the world as a result of their jobs. This change has occurred because of the portability of new sets and the simplicity of their use. Modern synthesized sets, which have the facility of actually entering the precise frequency number, made shortwave easy for everyone. People learned to pre-tune their sets, forgetting about kHz, MHz and wavebands. The new sets went in pockets, handbags and briefcases. Now sets weigh as little as 220 grams and are easily available and affordable." Teledifusion de France, which operates Radio France International's extensive shortwave transmitter network, says that "an estimated 2.5 billion people tune in to programmes broadcast on shortwave, and about a billion receivers pick up shortwave transmissions. At any given moment, over 200 million receivers are tuned in to shortwave broadcasts. Shortwave remains the only means of reaching a broad audience anywhere in the world, via a simple portable radio that can be bought for around $25. Listeners include expatriates, business travellers, tourists, or simply people who want to hear programmes in a language other than their own or who want to open a new window on the world. It doesn't matter where you are in the World, with shortwave you can always be in touch with Europa Radio International and you can't do that with the Internet or Sky satellite can you? There's always someone who will want to use the PC or watch the latest episode of the Simpsons. So get yourself a decent receiver, preferably with digital readout, check out our front page for the next transmission dates and times and come over and join us, there's a whole New World to explore. Write to us c/o PO Box 299, Kent CT5 2YA, UK E-mail to http://www.europaradiointernational.co.uk/shortwave.htm OUTSTANDING POST !!!!! This is a good reason for me to get a new radio to add to my collection :-) In addition... I've always felt that sw was the most severely undermarketed medium out there. Given the economy of sw air time costs, I cant help thinking how many people out there with a message or a statement to make would buy air time to put out their content if only they had an idea of how cheap and easy it is to do so. You'd could have everything from some jearky guy's sports talk show to garage rock bands airing their music on sw as an alternative way to have their work heard by lots of people. The inevitable accompaniment of that increased demand would be more transmitters going up. Once the public got wind of all these funn exciting and off beat things to hear, no doubt, listenership would go up. Once again.. I've always been ASTOUNDED that sw is so underused and undermarketed. I dont get it. Michael |
"Mike Terry" wrote in message ... snippety-doo-da Recent surveys revealed that 97% of regular business travellers listened to international shortwave. Hmm, I'd be suprised if 97% of regular business travllers knew what shortwave radio was! Mark. Auckland New Zealand. |
Michael wrote:
"Mike Terry" wrote in message ... Shortwave is actually experiencing a resurgence. It's strange but true, so what do we base our findings on? Mainly on the research carried out by the Mighty Merlin Communications, they that operate transmitters across the World on behalf of the BBC. This is what they had to say: "Shortwave radio listeners are growing globally, with shortwave penetration at its highest in the developing countries. That is not to say that shortwave is not having an impact in the Western world. Recent surveys revealed that 97% of regular business travellers listened to international shortwave." This increase in the shortwave audience, according to Merlin, is "spelt out dramatically by just one factory in China that is frantically producing 300,000 shortwave radio sets per month just to support demand. Grundig in America report growth each year on their sales of shortwave receivers. There are at least 600 million shortwave radio sets worldwide." In France, according to a Merlin survey, 70% of households with radio have access to shortwave. In Slovakia, the figure is 77%. "What is most interesting," according to Merlin, "is the growth over the last 10 years in shortwave usage by business travellers, diplomats, aid workers and others who move about the world as a result of their jobs. This change has occurred because of the portability of new sets and the simplicity of their use. Modern synthesized sets, which have the facility of actually entering the precise frequency number, made shortwave easy for everyone. People learned to pre-tune their sets, forgetting about kHz, MHz and wavebands. The new sets went in pockets, handbags and briefcases. Now sets weigh as little as 220 grams and are easily available and affordable." Teledifusion de France, which operates Radio France International's extensive shortwave transmitter network, says that "an estimated 2.5 billion people tune in to programmes broadcast on shortwave, and about a billion receivers pick up shortwave transmissions. At any given moment, over 200 million receivers are tuned in to shortwave broadcasts. Shortwave remains the only means of reaching a broad audience anywhere in the world, via a simple portable radio that can be bought for around $25. Listeners include expatriates, business travellers, tourists, or simply people who want to hear programmes in a language other than their own or who want to open a new window on the world. It doesn't matter where you are in the World, with shortwave you can always be in touch with Europa Radio International and you can't do that with the Internet or Sky satellite can you? There's always someone who will want to use the PC or watch the latest episode of the Simpsons. So get yourself a decent receiver, preferably with digital readout, check out our front page for the next transmission dates and times and come over and join us, there's a whole New World to explore. Write to us c/o PO Box 299, Kent CT5 2YA, UK E-mail to http://www.europaradiointernational.co.uk/shortwave.htm OUTSTANDING POST !!!!! This is a good reason for me to get a new radio to add to my collection :-) In addition... I've always felt that sw was the most severely undermarketed medium out there. Given the economy of sw air time costs, I cant help thinking how many people out there with a message or a statement to make would buy air time to put out their content if only they had an idea of how cheap and easy it is to do so. You'd could have everything from some jearky guy's sports talk show to garage rock bands airing their music on sw as an alternative way to have their work heard by lots of people. The inevitable accompaniment of that increased demand would be more transmitters going up. Once the public got wind of all these funn exciting and off beat things to hear, no doubt, listenership would go up. Once again.. I've always been ASTOUNDED that sw is so underused and undermarketed. I dont get it. Michael WRMI sold airtime to practically anybody to say or do practically anything for $1 a minute five years ago. I don't know if that's still the case, but in 2000, as an experiment, I emailed WRMI about doing a thirty minute program every Sunday night. Yes, they had two slots available, and they were only $30 a week. What a deal! It's too bad that WBCQ, which was set up to provide exactly the sort of service that you're talking about, was forced to rely on endless tapes of Bill Cooper's Hour Of The Time to pay the bills. I should note that virtually all of the SW station shutdowns have been the result of either a) services for expats going to the internet, such as the Swiss, or b) terminally stupid management, such as the BBC, which has made other extremely dumb decisions (in the BBC's case, slashing popular programs on UK TV). The VOA is another case of terminal idiocy and overreliance on FM and satellite. Just wait until a Radio Sawa FM transmitter in Iraq is captured by insurgents and starts pumping out jihad instead, and you'll have a lot of suits in DC scratching their heads and wondering how THAT could happen. And then there's Nepal, where the BBC found that its precious FM relay was broadcasting government propaganda all of a sudden. Li, this newsgroup's Commie baiter, posted an article about how people in Beijing were coughing up mucho yuan (the equivalent of $20) in order to hear criticism of the CCP on SW. Just wait until they get their hands on the antijamming antenna. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
FCC regulations prohibit SW broadcasting to domestic audiences. That has a
lot to do with it. "Michael" wrote in message ... I've always been ASTOUNDED that sw is so underused and undermarketed. I dont get it. Michael |
Teledifusion,that is what that lady said on that radio in that hotel
room when I did my five days R&R in Hong Kong,China in 1964.Over four years ago,I mentioned something about than in an email of mine to that married Irish woman wayyyyy over yonder across the big pond in Bognor Regis,England and the next day she emailed me a good explanation of Teledifusion.I forget most of what she said about it though.Perhaps someone in this news group will provide an explaination of/about Teledifusion? cuhulin |
Shortwave Radio and Ham Radio and Ham Radio Operators is/are the ONLY!
means of Communication(s)/News if the Big One/Mushroom goes up!,Period! cuhulin |
heyyyyy Mark,over there in New Zealand.Tell all of them wimmins over
there old Hansom Larry (that's me,y'all wimmins) Loves them. cuhulin |
"CW" wrote in message .net... FCC regulations prohibit SW broadcasting to domestic audiences. That has a lot to do with it. As I understand, the regulations prohibit exclusively broadcasting to domestic audiences. Incidental broacasting to domestic audiences is allowed. It doesn't matter much, as the FCC isn't enforcing these regulations, anyway. There's a RWonline article which includes this topic: "All in all, U.S. SW broadcasters operate in a strange, Twilight Zone kind of world, but one that they relish. Passport's Magne believes that U.S. shortwave broadcasters enjoy it so much that they don't want the FCC to loosen its archaic restrictions on domestic shortwave. " ""The truth is that they like it the way it is," he said. "If the rules were changed, it could open the floodgates to more competition." " "An unfair accusation? Not according to WRMI's White. " ""We discussed changing the rules at the National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters' convention a few years ago," he said. "In fact, the FCC asked for our help in doing so. However, after some discussion, a lot of people came to Magne's conclusion: that we're all better off just leaving things as they are. After all, under the current regime, the FCC pretty much leaves us alone. If the rules were changed, then they might get serious about enforcing them."" http://www.rwonline.com/reference-ro...rtwave_2.shtml Frank Dresser |
"Recent surveys revealed that 97% of regular business travellers
listened to international shortwave." As much as I would like to believe a statement like that, it does not represent what I see as a frequent international business traveller. I see travellers getting their information about the world from cable/satellite television, newspapers and via the internet. If the business of shortwave broadcasting is to enticing then why are so many broadcasters dropping out and why are so few companies producing the receivers. Cleverly worded surveys that ask a question like "Have you heard a shortwave broadcast in the last 12 months" can be perverted to support whatever conclusion the survey taker want's to make. |
Pirate Shortwave Radio is the Best! Shortwave Radio listening of all.I
have ALWAYS LIKED PIRATE SHORTWAVE RADIO.I ALWAYS WILL TOO. cuhulin |
John S,a little over a year ago,I got a phone call from that WHOAR,
betsy myers at nbc.(or whichever Commie outfit that WHOAR! works for) I picked up my phone,I says,Who is this? BITCH,says,Mr.Ryan,I am betsy myers,I told that Filthy Bitch Slut ****! to Don't Ever Phone Me Again! (Hit it,Willie Nelson,on www.us963.com The City Of New Orleans) cuhulin |
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Yeah,but I know about Teledifusion though and I know I need to go take a
**** and then get on over to the Goodwill thrift store. cuhulin |
I don't understand....
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Out the door and on me way to the Goodwill thrift store rat now.
cuhulin |
"CW" wrote in message .net... FCC regulations prohibit SW broadcasting to domestic audiences. That has a lot to do with it. There are legal and technical ways around that for sure. Michael |
I doubt that 97 percent of regular business travelers listen to
shortwave. However, I do think that shortwave is primed to experience a resurgence. Let me explain... When we're all moaning about the discontinuation of various receivers, we tend to focus on the high-end receivers, which are indeed being 'thinned out'. However, thanks to the Chinese, the world is being flooded with inexpensive shortwave radios. I believe that this latter fact will eventually work to the advantage of the high-end market. People will get cheap shortwave radios, enjoy them and then come down with a nagging and persistent curiosity about how much more they could hear with a *better* receiver. So, I expect the large number of sales of low-end receivers will eventually translate into demand for better receivers. I could be wrong, but isn't this the way it usually works? I ended up with an R8B only after going through a string of less expensive radios and always developing a yearning for more. I think this is fairly common. Steve |
"John S." wrote in message oups.com... I don't understand.... That's a Good Thing, John. |
running dogg wrote in :
wrote: Degen 1108. Degen is already thinking about the high end market, since with all the bells and whistles they want to put on the 1108 I doubt it will be affordable to the average Chinese. I think that the Chinese will eventually build high end receivers, either Degen and Tecsun will build them or new companies will spring up that will specialize in high end stuff. I'm sure that this will make Li apoplectic, but for the rest of humanity it will be a positive development since the Western (US, Europe, Japan) high end stuff has suffered from quality control problems and lack of design originality for quite some time. But Tecsun managed to work out all the QC problems with the Sat 800 (Ham 2000) and have gradually improved it. I'm sure that Degen will eventually work out whatever bugs are in its radios and produce quality radios. The Chinese seem to have the Chrysler and Microsoft approach to product development-put something, anything out in the market and fix bugs as they come up. Sure beats having to quality check your own stuff with in house staff. The downside is that you don't want to buy something that has been out for less than a couple years. I think that there are a lot of people in China who can afford a good, decent desk shortwave radio, and that one of the drivers is getting uncensored news from elsewhere (if you can get past the jamming). A more selective radio with better filters will have better luck in general. I believe the primary market of Tecsun and Degen is the chinese domestic market, it's a big country, and shortwave is actually still pretty popular there. The secondary consideration for them is proving a decent product for export by rebranding, such as Tecsun does with Eton. An option besides making a deal with a company like Eton is to simply license a brand name, like GE, such as many asian makers of consumer electronics do. |
Conan Ford wrote:
running dogg wrote in : wrote: Degen 1108. Degen is already thinking about the high end market, since with all the bells and whistles they want to put on the 1108 I doubt it will be affordable to the average Chinese. I think that the Chinese will eventually build high end receivers, either Degen and Tecsun will build them or new companies will spring up that will specialize in high end stuff. I'm sure that this will make Li apoplectic, but for the rest of humanity it will be a positive development since the Western (US, Europe, Japan) high end stuff has suffered from quality control problems and lack of design originality for quite some time. But Tecsun managed to work out all the QC problems with the Sat 800 (Ham 2000) and have gradually improved it. I'm sure that Degen will eventually work out whatever bugs are in its radios and produce quality radios. The Chinese seem to have the Chrysler and Microsoft approach to product development-put something, anything out in the market and fix bugs as they come up. Sure beats having to quality check your own stuff with in house staff. The downside is that you don't want to buy something that has been out for less than a couple years. I think that there are a lot of people in China who can afford a good, decent desk shortwave radio, and that one of the drivers is getting uncensored news from elsewhere (if you can get past the jamming). A more selective radio with better filters will have better luck in general. I believe the primary market of Tecsun and Degen is the chinese domestic market, it's a big country, and shortwave is actually still pretty popular there. Yes, China has a lot of domestic SW stations, and China is too big to cover with AM and FM. A desktop radio coupled with the antijamming antenna will make very good progress in unjamming RFA. Maybe this is why the CCP doesn't want to make a desktop. But their tune will change in a few years as people outside China will clamor to trade up from their Degens and Tecsuns, and the CCP will simply forbid sale of the new desktops in China. But people will still get them, and use them. The CCP, once they start making desktops, may see its days numbered, which will make Li happy. The secondary consideration for them is proving a decent product for export by rebranding, such as Tecsun does with Eton. An option besides making a deal with a company like Eton is to simply license a brand name, like GE, such as many asian makers of consumer electronics do. Most of the "classic" American brand names, such as GE, are up for sale to the highest bidder. Thomson currently owns GE and RCA and Philips owns Magnavox, but other names such as Philco and Westinghouse are wide open. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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