Don't Dump Your Boatanchors Yet

[Bry Carling]

BRAVO LIN,
Well put... makes the Electronic Freedom  Foundation seem 
valuable, although I know very little about them...

Long live REAL SW Radio!!

> At 05:58 AM 03/12/2008, you wrote:
> >Is shortwave a short-timer?
> >
> >http://www.rfdesignline.com/206902566
> 
> "If it's Digital, it MUST be better!"  I am SO tired of hearing this from 
> the Bean-Counters.
> 
> They're throwing out the baby with the bathwater in the name of saving money.
> 
> SW Radio goes right from the transmitter directly into your radio set; no 
> routers, no proxy servers,  no cable lines, no ISP "providing" it to you at 
> a monthly ransom; and most significant of all, no governmental entity 
> stepping in and censoring what you can and cannot receive.  (Yes, I know 
> about jamming...half the time it doesn't work well, and there are 
> countermeasures.)
> 
> Ever since The Suits took over The Net, they've been champing at the bit to 
> bury traditional radio.  One day, when a big solar flare kicks out the 
> satellites, or a natural shift in the Earth's crust does in the Internet 
> lines under the oceans, or some such, we're going to be very sorry they did 
> this.
> 
> "Learn the new, but keep the best of the old," doesn't seem to have 
> resonated with the buck-chasing Technocrati at the Beeb ("Make me an Earl, 
> I just saved us 25 Pounds!"), or other Euro broadcasters, or for that 
> matter, some on this side of the Atlantic.
> 
> Just my .02
> 
> -Lin/KJ6EF
> 
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