Re: [Swprograms] Hello

[Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>]

What is intriguing is to see how cellphone technologies have
leapfrogged others...there's been analysis of the number of people in
Kenya that use their cellphones as supplements to shortwave to listen
to the BBC.  It's a surprisingly large number.  However most
broadcasters agree that shortwave still is a must to reach Africa,
parts of Latin America, and parts of East and South Asia.

But these broadcasters' own surveys identify that folks in Europe,
North America, ANZ, and Japan listen to SW less than they used to.
Heck, among folks under 30, even local AM radio is rarely listened to.

Don't get me wrong...there's still something special about shortwave -
the unpredictability, the propagation from areas that don't have
Internet access, the fact that it can't be blocked (other than via
jamming).

It is fun to head off to a state park cabin for a couple days for some
uninterrupted shortwave listening, but it's tough -- both with
propagation as well as electrical interference -- to listen much at
home.

I think what you'll find here is that most of us advocate the use of
multiple means of access, including shortwave, and that broadcasters
that eliminate shortwave to a particular region do, in fact, lose part
of the audience that prefers shortwave to other technologies.

Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA



On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Mark F. Tattenbaum, M.F.A.
<mft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey All,
> Well I guess if that is the focus of the group it takes you right out of
> shortwave listening.
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