[Boatanchors] Short Wave Broadcast Folks:

[J. Forster]

Well, the folly of the web approach is now being demonstrated in the
Ukraine. The Russians can cut all internet traffic pretty easily.

A 1 MW SW station takes nothing but a simple, tube even, receiver. There
are probably tens of thousands in-country. And jamming it is NOT trivial.

But, all the world's problems can be solved by giving a plattitude-laden
speach.   NOT!!!

YMMV,

-John

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> 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 flipping on a receiver and tuning a station has been replaced by a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
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