The future of shortwave?
 

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David Eduardo wrote:

Very little of interst to rural residents in Latin America can be found
on
SW. First, such folk are generally only Spanish or indigenous language
speakers (such as the Quechua and Aymar=E1 and Guaran=ED speakers of the
=
Andean
zone and Paraguay. Second, rural residents are very poor, wtih annual
incomes of less than $600 on the average, where a SW receiver is
generally
not an option.

They might have one radio per village, or something. I remember seeing
pictures
of rural folks all gathered around the radio, listening. But that was
years ago, though...

It reminds me of an old Radio Peking QSL card I received years ago. The view
was taken from inside a grass hut, looking out. You could see the workers in
the fields. The hut had no furniture apart from a wok, a first aid kit, a
transistor radio and a semi-automatic rifle.

Brad.