[HBR] Whither SWL'ing...?

[bignick at execpc.com]

If misery loves company, you've got
sympathizers.

I'm a musician.  Think how I feel about the
commercial airwaves!  Yuck!

--KC9KEP

> Good Day All, 
> 
> At first blush, this subject
may be considered to be off-topic...however, 
> ask yourself first
if it was casual SWL'ing that originally interested you 
> in
radio, eventually leading you up into the Amateur ranks, before hurling

> flaming spit balls my way...! Hi Hi. 
> 
> I've
been engaged recently here with the re-alignment & "...playing

> around" with my old RCA AR-88LF receiver: this has
entailed lots of time 
> cruising the short wave spectrum, and as
a consequence, getting 
> re-acquainted with the "feel"
of the SW broadcast bands --- something that 
> I haven't done
since about 1971. 
> 
> What a change for the worse the
past 38 years have ushered-in! 
> 
> The lack of the
"used-to-be" omni-present former big powerhouse stations 
> like HCJB, Radio Deutche-Welle, the BBC, and Radio Canada --- and
their 
> informative broadcasts --- is bad enough, but it's the
quality of stuff 
> from the U.S.A. that is most shocking: nine
out of ten U.S.-based SW 
> BC'ers seem to be dominated by
religious themes...and those that aren't 
> are heavily into
radical, extremist political rants that shock and amaze 
> even me
with their blatant content... 
> 
> Whatever happened to
the steadying, re-assuring transmissions from The 
> Voice of
America...? It is sadly missed! 
> 
> What a poor image of
America these current stations are presenting to the 
> world, and
what a lousy incentive to-day's SWL'ing is to budding, future, 
>
wannabe Hams... 
> 
> I often ask myself, as I come across
this verbal garbage, if the current 
> state of affairs had
existed "...way-back-when", would I have become a 
>
Ham...? The answer is always, "Probably not." 
> 
> ~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ 
>
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