[Boatanchors] Short Wave Broadcast Folks:

[Rob Atkinson]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Richard Knoppow
<1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>     I very much miss all the short wave broadcasting, even the propaganda
> stations, but especially the old BBC World Service. These days Cuba and
> China are about the only ones left.

You can thank the internet for that.  Just hanging out a wire,
flipping on a receiver and tuning a station has been replaced by a
fussy unreliable and complex computer setup and "find the app for the
streaming format" then you are lucky to have 10 minutes trouble free.
you can thank cell phones for the disappearance of pay phones and
AT&T's war on POTS, the good old twisted pair.   Try calling your
house to check on it when your phone is a cell phone.   Try calling
out when your electric service is of and your "phone" is a computer.
Plenty of perfectly good technology that worked reliably is getting
tossed away by millions of people who are ga ga for anything with a
touch screen.

73

Rob
K5UJ