CBC Radio in Canada still maintains a shortwave radio service. People living
abroad are able to hear news from their home country. .
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From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtd...@internode.on.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: shortwave radio
Well certainly its dead from the broadcasters point of view such as the
BBC and the like but I certainly take your point about the DX person, I
don't do much short-wave listening myself these days but I certainly do
Medium-Wave listening, I'm in an ideal locatioon.
I think we in Australia are very well off as far as DX listening goes on
medium-Wave, doesn't the new Digital Radio sstandard in the U.S. use the
Medium-Wave band with a data stream or something? If that's the case
then I could see how annoying that would be to hear the data being
received by a medium-wave set.
Now I've just been talking to a friend of mine about some short-wave
sets and he seems to think that some of the "wind-up" type give very
good performance.
I also recall tthat Radio Netherlands had a good Short-Wave radio review
page at some stage, if you can't find it on their site then perhaps
you'll find it at www.archive.org
Bob Seed wrote:
The only reason why short-wave reception is so poor at this time is that
we are probably at the bottom of the cycle. Believe me short-wave radio is
not dead by any stretch of the imagination. Lots of D X ers out there.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: shortwave radio
Well even there that's debatable as the BBC for example is finding
cheaper alternatives such as localised FM transmissions but I take your
point all the same but let's face it, I doubt whether any of us on this
list are from "developing countries" so taking your point in practical
terms I still ask, what's the point when shortwave transmissions will be
beamed to developing countries and not us so most of the time you won't
be able to receive them anyway? Sorry! you're just wasting your time and
money.
André van Deventer wrote:
I can assure you that in developing countries and especially in Africa it
seems as if shortwave is still alive and well!
Andre
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Sent: 17 November 2009 03:13 AM
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Subject: Re: shortwave radio
I really don't know why all the bother on this because there is hardly
anything on the band right at the moment and a new standard of shortwave
radio will arrive on the market in the coming year, the "DRM" standard
will
be used ensuring you'll hear shortwave as you've never heard it before,
near
CD quality in other words, no fading, no crackle etc.
Now it may be that some sets out there are already "DRM" compatible, I'm
not
aware of any at this time but that doesn't mean anything. I know Sony
had
plans to launch a "multi standard" set which Sony boasted at the time
could
"Receive any domestic broadcast on any band in the world?" Well we'll
wait
and see on that one, obviously such a set would be adapted to suit each
country's different DAB standards for example but such a set isn't beyond
the realms of a cheap price given the power of the processor chip these
days.
Let's face it, the "shortwave" as we knew it is a definite and obvious
listening medium of the past for better or for worse. Yes, I mourn its
passing and we're going to regret the day that it ever died I think, if a
country for one reason or another decides to shoot down a communications
satellite? Well that could take out a whole heap of stuff including radio
and TV broadcasts, cell phone communications etc so it will be
interesting
to see how fire, police and so forth could get emergency messages out to
the
public and son on.
On 16/11/2009, at 4:51 PM, Bob Seed wrote:
The grundig line of radios are very good and have agood front end. They
are resonably priced as well. .
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Subject: shortwave radio
Could someone please recommend a good shortwave radio that I can
purchase?
Thanks.
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