Hi Worldspace has packed up forever. I believe, the Africa service was available until recently. Don't know of its present state.
Harish. -----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vikas Kapoor Sent: 27 August 2014 23:18 To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issuesconcerning the disabled. Subject: Re: [AI] Radio's vanishing from the market I don't think they completely abandoned their services, rather it has now been made a paid service, no free station is there. At least I checked the same about 3 years back, don't know about today's scenario. ----- Original Message ----- From: "P L VARMA" <[email protected]> To: "AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issuesconcerning thedisabled." <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 7:24 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Radio's vanishing from the market world space stopped its service some 4 or 5 years ago. Has the service resumed? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vikas Kapoor" <[email protected]> To: "AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issuesconcerning thedisabled." <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 5:44 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Radio's vanishing from the market >I suppose world space radios are good options these days because you hardly > see any shortwave stations with decent clarity and most of the companies > are not willing to invest to improve the shortwave stations quality, so > why > to bother about radios with shortwave bands! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kotian, H P" <[email protected]> > To: "AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues > concerningthe disabled." <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 5:10 PM > Subject: [AI] Radio's vanishing from the market > > > Friends > > It seems now radio is soon going to be an extinct entity.There are > practically no radio's covering the shortwave bands available. Until > rescently, one could easily get Chineese radios which covered a decent > spectrum of the shortwave and also had the TV bands. Those are no where to > be found in any shops and even online. > Being a radioenthusiast, it was pretty disturbing. Online I could find > only > on Rediff shopping store 2 decent model which covered the entire shortwave > spectrum, one was a not known brand, maybe Chineese for Rs. 800, > considering > the situation, I bought Sony ICF SW11. Sony radio's are known to be long > lasting and therefore I made the pick. It is good on sensitive, > selectivity > and sensitivity. It also covered the Long wave band which does not pick > any > station in our region. > Although, this was very expensive, I think it is a good buy. I am just > letting folks know, maybe you probably have the last chance on picking a > radio. 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