Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

Shortwave is DEAD. Use your computer to listen to a vast arrray of
radio broadcasts from anywhere in the world. No radio, no antenna, no
static. Shortwave broadcasting is old tech, dying fast.

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

Merlin3rd wrote:
Shortwave is DEAD. Use your computer to listen to a vast arrray of
radio broadcasts from anywhere in the world. No radio, no antenna, no
static. Shortwave broadcasting is old tech, dying fast.

Do you have the URL for the Coast Guard frequencies?

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

Merlin3rd wrote:

Shortwave is DEAD. Use your computer to listen to a vast arrray of
radio broadcasts from anywhere in the world. No radio, no antenna, no
static. Shortwave broadcasting is old tech, dying fast.

Yada, yada, yada. We already knew that so you'd best be running along.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

"Merlin3rd" wrote in message
oups.com...
Shortwave is DEAD. Use your computer to listen to a vast arrray of
radio broadcasts from anywhere in the world. No radio, no antenna, no
static. Shortwave broadcasting is old tech, dying fast.


shortwave plus dipole = $200

ten years of internet access = $1000

Gravity

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

If you can read this ..... Then you can listen on the internet....
DAH... receive internet radio. Douche bag!
gravity wrote:
"Merlin3rd" wrote in message
oups.com...
Shortwave is DEAD. Use your computer to listen to a vast arrray of
radio broadcasts from anywhere in the world. No radio, no antenna, no
static. Shortwave broadcasting is old tech, dying fast.


shortwave plus dipole = $200

ten years of internet access = $1000

Gravity

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

In article .com,
"Merlin3rd" wrote:

Shortwave is DEAD. Use your computer to listen to a vast arrray of
radio broadcasts from anywhere in the world. No radio, no antenna, no
static. Shortwave broadcasting is old tech, dying fast.

It's not dead. Everyone knows about streaming audio on the web, big
deal. Go Troll someplace else.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

Merlin3rd wrote:
If you can read this ..... Then you can listen on the internet....
DAH... receive internet radio. Douche bag!
gravity wrote:
"Merlin3rd" wrote in message
oups.com...
Shortwave is DEAD. Use your computer to listen to a vast arrray of
radio broadcasts from anywhere in the world. No radio, no antenna, no
static. Shortwave broadcasting is old tech, dying fast.


shortwave plus dipole = $200

ten years of internet access = $1000

Gravity

What's the URL for Gander radio?

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

"Merlin3rd" wrote in message
oups.com...
Shortwave is DEAD. Use your computer to listen to a vast arrray of
radio broadcasts from anywhere in the world. No radio, no antenna, no
static. Shortwave broadcasting is old tech, dying fast.

Just been around 5 European countries. No internet in hotel rooms so
listened to BBC WS on my Sony 2001D.


--
Simon Mason
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

Telamon wrote:
In article .com,
"Merlin3rd" wrote:

Shortwave is DEAD. Use your computer to listen to a vast arrray of
radio broadcasts from anywhere in the world. No radio, no antenna, no
static. Shortwave broadcasting is old tech, dying fast.

It's not dead. Everyone knows about streaming audio on the web, big
deal. Go Troll someplace else.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California


The Future Of Radio
Exploring the future of radio and wireless technologies. Edited by
Harry Helms
May 12, 2006

Shortwave Broadcasting Meets Reality


"The era of shortwave radio broadcasting is surely, inexorably drawing
to a close. Even that starstruck eleven year old boy inside me-----the

one enthralled by shortwave radio almost 43 years ago----can see that."



"With the huge decline in tropical stations, DRM splatter in other
areas, religious broadcasters appearing in the 60-90 meter bands,
relays...it is just not the same for me anymore. However, I have
wonderful memories from those years that will never be forgotten."


"Voice of the Andes' Airs Final English Broadcast on SW".


"About 13 years ago, one of our HighText/LLH employees joined the Peace

Corps and was going to be posted to Botswana. My going-away present to

her was a Grundig portable shortwave radio with digital tuning. I even

pre-programmed it with frequencies for the VOA, BBC, Radio South
Africa, etc. In a letter, I asked her how she was enjoying listening
to shortwave. Her reply was a sheepish admission that she never
listened to shortwave; there was too much fading, interference, and the

audio was awful. Instead, she preferred listening to AM and FM, and had

good reception of the local VOA and BBC relays as well as South African

AM stations, especially in the evenings. I don't think her story is
unique, even among the permanent residents of Botswana and other areas
that we supposedly need to serve by shortwave."


"The decline even from a decade ago is remarkable, and from two decades

ago it is shocking (check through an old copy of World Radio Television

Handbook if you doubt this). There was a time when the 4700 to 5000
kHz range would be filled with broadcasters from Central and South
America in the evening hours, African broadcasters in late afternoons
and after midnight, and with Pacific and Indonesian stations around
dawn. Now you hear more background noise and utility stations in that
range than regional and national broadcasters. And where have those
listeners gone? Mostly to recently-opened stations on AM and
(especially) FM."


Remember folks - "keep thinking positively about your Eaton **** E1s" !

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

dxAce wrote:
Merlin3rd wrote:

Shortwave is DEAD. Use your computer to listen to a vast arrray of
radio broadcasts from anywhere in the world. No radio, no antenna, no
static. Shortwave broadcasting is old tech, dying fast.

Yada, yada, yada. We already knew that so you'd best be running along.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


The Future Of Radio
Exploring the future of radio and wireless technologies. Edited by
Harry Helms
May 12, 2006

Shortwave Broadcasting Meets Reality


"The era of shortwave radio broadcasting is surely, inexorably drawing
to a close. Even that starstruck eleven year old boy inside me-----the

one enthralled by shortwave radio almost 43 years ago----can see that."



"With the huge decline in tropical stations, DRM splatter in other
areas, religious broadcasters appearing in the 60-90 meter bands,
relays...it is just not the same for me anymore. However, I have
wonderful memories from those years that will never be forgotten."


"Voice of the Andes' Airs Final English Broadcast on SW".


"About 13 years ago, one of our HighText/LLH employees joined the Peace

Corps and was going to be posted to Botswana. My going-away present to

her was a Grundig portable shortwave radio with digital tuning. I even

pre-programmed it with frequencies for the VOA, BBC, Radio South
Africa, etc. In a letter, I asked her how she was enjoying listening
to shortwave. Her reply was a sheepish admission that she never
listened to shortwave; there was too much fading, interference, and the

audio was awful. Instead, she preferred listening to AM and FM, and had

good reception of the local VOA and BBC relays as well as South African

AM stations, especially in the evenings. I don't think her story is
unique, even among the permanent residents of Botswana and other areas
that we supposedly need to serve by shortwave."


"The decline even from a decade ago is remarkable, and from two decades

ago it is shocking (check through an old copy of World Radio Television

Handbook if you doubt this). There was a time when the 4700 to 5000
kHz range would be filled with broadcasters from Central and South
America in the evening hours, African broadcasters in late afternoons
and after midnight, and with Pacific and Indonesian stations around
dawn. Now you hear more background noise and utility stations in that
range than regional and national broadcasters. And where have those
listeners gone? Mostly to recently-opened stations on AM and
(especially) FM."


Remember folks - "keep thinking positively about your Eaton **** E1s" !

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

"Merlin3rd" wrote in message
oups.com...
Shortwave is DEAD. Use your computer to listen to a vast arrray of
radio broadcasts from anywhere in the world. No radio, no antenna, no
static. Shortwave broadcasting is old tech, dying fast.


Birdwatching is dead, why not just look at pictures of birds online.

Oh yeah... a person's hobby
(birdwatching, shortwave, coin collecting etc.)
is fun and exciting to him/her. Not dead
at all, full of life, satisfaction and the thrill of discovery.

What's dead is your mind, and your personality if you have to get
attention/satisfaction by trolling a newsgroup.

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

dxAce wrote:
Merlin3rd wrote:

Shortwave is DEAD. Use your computer to listen to a vast arrray of
radio broadcasts from anywhere in the world. No radio, no antenna, no
static. Shortwave broadcasting is old tech, dying fast.

Yada, yada, yada. We already knew that so you'd best be running along.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


Mostly, garbage is being broadcast now - religion and boring news.
Shortwave is nothing like it used to be. Listening to hams and
ultilities is also
boring. More and more broadcasters are dropping shortwave and going to
either the
Internet, or AM. Once "Voice of the Andes", which I regularly listened
to, back in the
1960s and 1970s stopped broadcasting, and the BBC stopped broadcasting
to the US, I knew shortwave was dead. So, what is the point of
plopping down hundreds of
dollars for new receivers - most receivers are basically the same and
get the
same stations. Why spend $500 for an Eaton **** E1, when one can spend
$65 for a Degen 1103.

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

Computers (ala the internet) require continuous maintnance and
upkeep.(just like a woman) My cheap old beat up Goodwill store radios
continue (most of them anyway) to work ok and require no maintnance.
cuhulin

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

Voice of the Andes.Those people over there live to high up on those
Mountains.They don't get enough Oxygen to think straight.
cuhulin

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

In ews.net gravity
wrote:

"Merlin3rd" wrote in message
oups.com...
Shortwave is DEAD. Use your computer to listen to a vast arrray of
radio broadcasts from anywhere in the world. No radio, no antenna, no
static. Shortwave broadcasting is old tech, dying fast.


shortwave plus dipole = $200

ten years of internet access = $1000

Gravity



Yay Gravity!! You've actually read my mind. Try getting radio on a
computer somewhere like southern New Mexico. No wifi-, pay through the
nose for dial-up internet, and shakey at best. That VS: $60 for a Kaito
KA1103 that you just turn on. You'll find *something* for sure. Radio
Nederland and CBC *still* put out a good signal. Plus you get the
satisfaction of being *connected* the way people were for the better
part of the 20th century. Still more interesting too than just typing
in yet another URL. There's no fun in that. To the Choir, sorry for
feeding trolls but I still like my shortwaves. Too, shortwave's going
to continue as long as there are parts of the population who can't
afford internet access.

Just my .02 worth.

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

In t Sanjaya wrote:

"Merlin3rd" wrote in message
oups.com...
Shortwave is DEAD. Use your computer to listen to a vast arrray of
radio broadcasts from anywhere in the world. No radio, no antenna, no
static. Shortwave broadcasting is old tech, dying fast.


Birdwatching is dead, why not just look at pictures of birds online.

Oh yeah... a person's hobby
(birdwatching, shortwave, coin collecting etc.)
is fun and exciting to him/her. Not dead
at all, full of life, satisfaction and the thrill of discovery.

What's dead is your mind, and your personality if you have to get
attention/satisfaction by trolling a newsgroup.



Seems like he's doing this because he's too short minded to learn how to
actually try and enjoy his radio!

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

In article .com,
Steve wrote:

Merlin3rd wrote:
Shortwave is DEAD. Use your computer to listen to a vast arrray of
radio broadcasts from anywhere in the world. No radio, no antenna, no
static. Shortwave broadcasting is old tech, dying fast.

Do you have the URL for the Coast Guard frequencies?


Try

http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/marcomms/gmdss/msi.htm

Or somewhere around there.

Mark Zenier
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

And don't forget Satellite Radio
Merlin3rd wrote:
Shortwave is DEAD. Use your computer to listen to a vast arrray of
radio broadcasts from anywhere in the world. No radio, no antenna, no
static. Shortwave broadcasting is old tech, dying fast.

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

Why do you bother to hang out on this group then

wrote:
dxAce wrote:

Merlin3rd wrote:


Shortwave is DEAD. Use your computer to listen to a vast arrray of
radio broadcasts from anywhere in the world. No radio, no antenna, no
static. Shortwave broadcasting is old tech, dying fast.

Yada, yada, yada. We already knew that so you'd best be running along.

dxAce
Michigan
USA



Mostly, garbage is being broadcast now - religion and boring news.
Shortwave is nothing like it used to be. Listening to hams and
ultilities is also
boring. More and more broadcasters are dropping shortwave and going to
either the
Internet, or AM. Once "Voice of the Andes", which I regularly listened
to, back in the
1960s and 1970s stopped broadcasting, and the BBC stopped broadcasting
to the US, I knew shortwave was dead. So, what is the point of
plopping down hundreds of
dollars for new receivers - most receivers are basically the same and
get the
same stations. Why spend $500 for an Eaton **** E1, when one can spend
$65 for a Degen 1103.

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

He likes to hear them women in them porn internet movie clips
howling.OOOPS!
cuhulin

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

He probally gets HBO too.I dont.
cuhulin

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

On 2006-06-30 23:31:53 -0400, "Merlin3rd" said:

Shortwave is DEAD. Use your computer to listen to a vast arrray of
radio broadcasts from anywhere in the world. No radio, no antenna, no
static. Shortwave broadcasting is old tech, dying fast.


Riiiiight..........


--
PCs, like air-conditioners, are useless when you open Windows.

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

On 2006-06-30 23:31:53 -0400, "Merlin3rd" said:

Shortwave is DEAD. Use your computer to listen to a vast arrray of
radio broadcasts from anywhere in the world. No radio, no antenna, no
static. Shortwave broadcasting is old tech, dying fast.


Troll douche....

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

On 2006-07-02 00:18:22 -0400, ka6uup said:

Why do you bother to hang out on this group then



I'll field that one, he's retarded.

Why listen to shortwave when you can use the internet to listen
 

Merlin3rd wrote:
Shortwave is DEAD. Use your computer to listen to a vast arrray of
radio broadcasts from anywhere in the world. No radio, no antenna, no
static. Shortwave broadcasting is old tech, dying fast.

Too much crap to wade through on the internet.