Posted on 12/30/2013 3:57:33 PM PST by steelhead_trout
Anyone who is or was a shortwave listener, like I was, knows there isn't much left on the bands these days. Nothing like the Cold War days of the 70s and 80s when it seemed every nation from the biggest superpowers to the most forlorn Iron Curtain client state, had a booming shortwave network that broadcast in English, among dozens of other languages. The Cold War's end, lack of money, and the Internet did away with all that. But there's still Internet radio, and it can do wonders. There are thousands of stations, foreign and domestic, that broadcast in Engish, and tens of thousands in other languages. And, unlike with shortwave, they all come in crystal clear. All you need is WiFi. I have a great portable Internet radio (a Sangean WFR-28), whose only failing is that it cannot pick up stations which use the iheartradio streaming format (I've heard that Clear Channel does not want its stations picked up overseas). And you can listen to any format you wish. So if you miss the old days of shortwave, this can help.
Well that's a relief - I just don't see how a fiberglass whip style would work as well (which seems to be what they are peddling for base stations nowadays).
Thanks for the chat - you got my blood up for it. I just called the guy and laid word on that bundle.
PFFFFTTTT!!! EchoLink isn't real radio. Unless it's your rig putting rf into your antenna what's the bloody point?
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