If Shortwave dies,what would folks use for emergency communications if
the you know what hits the fan big time? I hope Shortwave never dies.
cuhulin

Steve Silverwood wrote:
In article ,
says...
Why are there so few on topic postings on this newsgroup? Is shortwave dying
like stamp collecting and other hobbies of the past?

I don't think Shortwave is dying at all, neither is ham radio. There
are still a lot of places on this old planet where the Internet is still
not readily available, so for news and entertainment the shortwave
receiver is still pretty much the only method of delivery. Same goes
for some places where the government is restrictive in what it will let
the people see in their regular media, or even on the Internet -- China
is actively filtering access to the Web within that country, for
example.

There may be less discussion about it here on the 'Net but that's not a
very accurate indicator of the medium worldwide. The people who depend
on shortwave are the same people who either don't have access to the
Internet or who are restricted in what they can get to on the 'Net by
their government, hence they don't get into the discussions on RRS
here....

(Stamp collecting may be in a bit of a decline, but that's a subject for
a different news group.)
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-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
Email:



I agree. Shortwave has been writhing on its deathbed for as long as I
can remember. It will remain there, writhing away, for many, many
generations into the future. Just wait and see. 200 years from now
people will still be debating whether or not shortwave has a future.

On 16 Aug 2005 11:35:45 -0700, wrote:



I agree. Shortwave has been writhing on its deathbed for as long as I
can remember. It will remain there, writhing away, for many, many
generations into the future. Just wait and see. 200 years from now
people will still be debating whether or not shortwave has a future.


That's ridiculous. Major broadcasters are slashing their HF coverage
in favor of superior delivery methods that actually have an audience
beyond hobbyists.

David wrote:

On 16 Aug 2005 11:35:45 -0700, wrote:


I agree. Shortwave has been writhing on its deathbed for as long as I
can remember. It will remain there, writhing away, for many, many
generations into the future. Just wait and see. 200 years from now
people will still be debating whether or not shortwave has a future.


That's ridiculous.

Uh-uh. The only thing ridiculous here is YOU 'tard.

Now go tote it, boy.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"dxAce" wrote in message
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David wrote:

On 16 Aug 2005 11:35:45 -0700, wrote:


I agree. Shortwave has been writhing on its deathbed for as long as I
can remember. It will remain there, writhing away, for many, many
generations into the future. Just wait and see. 200 years from now
people will still be debating whether or not shortwave has a future.


That's ridiculous.

Uh-uh. The only thing ridiculous here is YOU 'tard.

Now go tote it, boy.

dxAce
Michigan
USA



I think that abortion he was involved in sucked his brains out. lol

B.H.

dxAce wrote:

That's ridiculous.


Uh-uh. The only thing ridiculous here is YOU 'tard.

Not so. He is but a mere shadow of *you*, his Master.

Now go BORE it, Bozo.





mike

Did someone say something about major broadcasters? I certainly didn't.

wrote:

Did someone say something about major broadcasters?

Rickets did!

dxAce
Michigan
USA

On 16 Aug 2005 11:35:45 -0700, wrote:

I agree. Shortwave has been writhing on its deathbed for as long as I
can remember. It will remain there, writhing away, for many, many
generations into the future. Just wait and see. 200 years from now
people will still be debating whether or not shortwave has a future.

Sadly though, it is shortwave broadcasts in the ENGLISH language
that are dying out! All that is left now is BBC, CBC, a few others,
and hordes of annoying preachers... relatively speaking.

On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 20:46:46 +0100, "Mike Terry"
wrote:

Why are there so few on topic postings on this newsgroup? Is shortwave dying
like stamp collecting and other hobbies of the past?


When I got into shortwave listeniing around 1973, it wasn't popular
then. People around me preferred a solid 24/7 AM or FM signal to the
fading in and out of SW and formats that were just a general 1-3 hour
service. SW was added as an after thought to most cheap portables.
Telescopic antennas and dial slider tuning that would whisk past 6
bands in one sweep.

Anyone really into the hobby wanted a longwire and a "serious" $150+
rig, something anyone in any country saturated with AM/FM stations of
any format did not care for.

While it may have popular in the 1930s to 1960s, magazines like
Popular Electronics started dropping their SW columns as the computing
hobby gained steam.

The growth of the Internet has cut into SWBC. Most can stream their
signals to such users and they want to leave SW to outlying regions
that still use it as a means of contact. Times just change.

SWBC is not going away completely, just as newspapers won't.

Gene