IC = Integrated Circuit
Dx = Short wave radio - LONG distance transmitting and/or reveiving.
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>> Dx = Short wave radio - LONG distance transmitting and/or reveiving <<
A bit misleading. The term “DX” is nothing but a shorthand term for “distance.” And the DXing hobby is not just for radio, and it’s not just for shortwave.
In fact, the DXing hobby is still alive and well for TV, for medium-wave radio (AM broadcast band), for FM radio — and even for long-wave radio.
On the other hand, shortwave radio DXing certainly isn’t what it used to be, since so many international shortwave radio broadcasters have left the air over the last 20 years.
The decline of shortwave has been due both to the end of the Cold War and to the rise of the Internet.
As to the former reason, there’s no longer a need for the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and the BBC to beam the true story of the Free World to the enslaved people of Europe behind the Iron Curtain.
Moreover, thanks to the Internet, almost no matter where you live on Planet Earth, you can get non-fading and crystal clear programming from thousands of stations — whereas during the prime days of shortwave broadcasting, you were lucky to find more than a dozen reliable, listenable signals in a language you could understand.
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