No, he was just telling you the scope of this group has expanded beyond HF.
-----Original Message----- From: swprograms-boun...@hard-core-dx.com [mailto:swprograms-boun...@hard-core-dx.com] On Behalf Of Mark F. Tattenbaum, M.F.A. Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 6:01 PM To: Shortwave programming discussion Subject: Re: [Swprograms] Hello Dear Richard, Thanks for your comments. I will admit that I am a bit puzzled by your remarks...are you trying to say that my posting was not pertinent to the subject of the group? Cheers Mark On Feb 9, 2010, at 5:00 PM, Richard Cuff wrote: > Hello, Mark...I'm one of the co-perpetrators of this group as well. > > One of the things that has changed since I first started listening as > a 10-year-old in the mid-1960s and even since I awakened from SWL > dormancy in 1985 is that information from faraway places is much, much > easier to come by now...thus some of the "thrill" of shortwave has > vanished. However, if you chat with a broadcaster, all they want is > for people to hear them by whatever means is possible and affordable. > > The development and maturity of National Public Radio also comes into > play, I would opine -- until NPR came into existence there was no > domestic source for a global perspective on news and world events; > shortwave-based international broadcasters were the only radio sources > available to us. > > As many have mused, the end of the Cold War ideological struggle took > the wind out of the collective sails for many broadcasters...as there > was less of a reason for them to exist, in the eyes of the funding > sources for them. > > Other broadcasters -- Radio Netherlands and Radio Australia come > specifically to mind -- have focused their energies (creative as well > as RF) on reaching areas where media diversity, availability, and > freedom are not as plentiful as the bounty available here in the > developed world. > > We have tried to keep this group focused more on the "messages" that > shortwave broadcasters espouse(d) than strictly the technology of > shortwave. > > There are many groups that exist for discussions regarding DXing, > QSLing, propagation, and the like, and we really have tried not to > duplicate the fine efforts of others who specialize in those areas. > > We have tended to focus on English language spoken-word programming, > but there still is a ton of great music accessible via shortwave (and > admittedly on other platforms) that's worth firing up the receiver > for. > > What part of the world do you call home? > > Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Mark F. Tattenbaum, M.F.A. > <m...@roadrunner.com> wrote: >> Hi Mike, >> >> Yes there is more qrn but the new receivers seem to be handling it >> better. >> Conditions are never as good as we remember them. It does seem that >> propagation paths have changed from the past though. 15 meters was >> open this >> am with some Europeans and 20 meters is spotty here usually opens >> as the sun >> comes up but is gone before the afternoon. > _______________________________________________ > Swprograms mailing list > Swprograms@hard-core-dx.com > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swprograms-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, > or visit the URL shown above. > Mark F. Tattenbaum, M.F.A. m...@roadrunner.com _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list Swprograms@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swprograms-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list Swprograms@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swprograms-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.