> On Oct 7, 2017, at 17:57, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > >> On 10/07/2017 04:46 PM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: >> >> SW is dead. The internet killed it. > > I tune through the commercial broadcast bands every couple of years > Bible-thumpers mostly. The last I checked, the semi-religious HCJB was > still 5-by-9 here.
I listen to shortwave all of the time. I have a wire antenna run up a 100 foot cedar tree behind the house. I listen on a Sony ICF-SW1 that I got in the 90s when I lived in Europe. Had to get the capacitors in it redone a few years ago. The atmospherics here in the Seattle area are good for picking up Asia. At times I can pick up Japan and China better than local stations. There is an English-language Beijing commute time show that I often listen to. If conditions are right, I can pick up broadcasts from Africa. All with a radio the size of a pack of playing cards and 100 feet of speaker wire. I just got a SDR (software defined radio), but haven't yet tried to attach it the wire antenna to see what I can pick up with it. alan > > I have fond memories of planting trees on a cold winter day almost 25 > years ago with my wife, listening to the BBC World Service on her > Grundig Yacht Boy, yours truly with a hoedad, she with a bucket of > seedlings. > > --Chuck >
