Goodsounds;634307 Wrote: > I never got in to shortwave. Would you say that the lure was the sense > of adventure and the tactile experience of operating the radio, rather > than the content? Today, internet "broadcasting" brings clear content > (in most cases) in a mechanical, uninteresting way which I would guess > doesn't compare to the old days?
For me there we a number of appealing factors. The inital lure was the idea of listening to a broadcast that originated from another country. There were also times where the content was interesting. For instance, when the Berlin wall was coming down, it was interesting to listen to both the east and west german shortware outlets (Deutsche Welle and Radio Berlin International). The tactile experience with operating the radio was fun too, especially on more sofisticated radios where you could tune various filters to try to optimize the listenability of the signal. It was also fun to corrospond with the stations and send reception reports to get QSL (verification) cards. There's also an element of unpredictability because listening conditions depend a lot on atmospheric and solar conditions. Back then, there was no Internet, so shortwave was the only way of hearing other perspectives on current events. The alternative was international newspapers. You could get a sense of satisfaction from the fact that you could access information from an outlet that many people didn't. It is great to have easy clear access to radio broadcasts via the internet, but yes, it's a rather uninteresting way as compared to using a SW radio. -- maggior Rich --------- Setup: 2 SB3s, 4 Booms, 1 Duet, 1 Receiver, 1 Touch, iPeng on iPod Touch. SuSE 11.0 Server running SqueezeBoxServer 7.5.0, MusicIP, and SqueezeSlave. Current library stats: 34,767 songs, 2,776 albums, 505 artists. http://www.last.fm/user/maggior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88037 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
