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	1 .SH tgtimes
	2 BBC Reviving the Plain Old Radio
	3 .2C 31v
	4 .
	5 .PP
	6 BBC, one of the earliest if not the first radio broadcasting ever,
	7 comes back to using a WWII era technology, to overcome limitation
	8 Russia imposes over Ukraine.
	9 .
	10 .PP
	11 In between a rain of missiles and a short moment of temporary peace,
	12 fetching information on what is happening around is a relief, maybe
	13 even a requirement for survival.
	14 .
	15 .PP
	16 Internet infrastructure of Ukraine are being impacted, and the
	17 backbone getting shackled by all kind of limitations, provoked the
	18 BBC news bulletin to be unreachable.
	19 .
	20 .PP
	21 A more primitive way to broadcast critical headlines than Internet:
	22 \fBshortwave radio\fR, which can live off a simple emitter for covering
	23 a large region.
	24 .
	25 .QP
	26 It has launched two new shortwave frequencies in the region for
	27 four hours of World Service English news a day. These frequencies
	28 can be received clearly in Kyiv and parts of Russia.
	29 .
	30 .FS
	31 https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/millions-of-russians-turn-to-bbc-…
	32 .FE
	33 .
	34 .PP
	35 Shortly after, possessing a shortwave radio device at home became
	36 forbidden, proving that in spite of being a low-technology solution,
	37 it was efficient enough to disturb the control of the press by the
	38 government.
	39 .
	40 .PP
	41 This showcases how quickly-deployed and resilient simple technologies
	42 can be in comparison to fragile, high-tech interdependent ecosystems.
	43 .
	44 .PP
	45 Radio is also trivially interfaced with high-tech: Any person with
	46 an analog emitter may start broadcasting a radio signal, reading a
	47 news digest out loud.
	48 .
	49 .PP
	50 Given instructions, a receiver is also very easy to build with
	51 scavenged parts. An antenna is simply a wire producing an input
	52 signal, that after demodulation, becomes a sound signal to be fed
	53 to a speaker.
	54 .
	55 .PP
	56 It also shows benefits of putting all the technically difficult
	57 parts onto the side of the content producer. It helps with adoption of
	58 a new technology: Making the client device/software trivial and safe
	59 to build, setup and use.
	60 .
	61 .FS
	62 https://hackaday.com/2022/03/17/owning-a-shortwave-radio
	63 .FE