Subj : Sad news.
To : Holger Granholm
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sun Dec 11 2016 10:10 am
> HG> This is really sad news, since Radio Australia has been an excellent
> HG> propagation beacon, for checking radio conditions to the Pacific area,
> HG> on the 9-, 12-, 15- and 18-MHz bands.
That is sad news. I have not had a SW-capable radio in a while but, back in
the early 1980's, I used to listen to one quite often. Listening to it was
much like my early experiences with BBSing just a few short years later... I
was amazed that I could listen to broadcasts from around the world. As this
was still the cold war, I almost felt like a young spy eavesdropping on the
broadcasts of Radio Moscow World Service. :) Then, of course, there was the
BBC, the VOA, the time beacons, WRNO (that played rock-and-roll out of New
Orleans), and a bunch of broadcasts in languages that I could not understand
but, based on the tone of voice, I imagined were some dictator or
revolutionary attempting to incite their people to action! :)
I wonder what the additional cost is of providing a short wave simulcast?
Mike
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