It depends on how one uses the blue pages. For domestic broadcasters that didn't adjust frequencies every six months, the blue pages were a helpful way to get a quick look at who might be on a given frequency at a given time.
When I first got back into the hobby in the mid-1980s (after a 15-year hiatus), just seeing the geographic diversity embodied in the frequency spectrum helped to motivate me to get active. I had purchased Passport before I had purchased my first new shortwave radio (the GE World Monitor...from NYC area electronics chain "Crazy Eddie's"). Nowadays, the availability of instantly-updated spreadsheets and documents provides accuracy and value that can't be matched by a guide updated only once per year, but certainly Passport has been an important resource for my radio listening -- even in the World Wide Web era - for 20+ years. Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Glenn Hauser<[email protected]> wrote: > > I would say if anything, it`s good news for the WRTH! I expect that PWBR > readers have realised that despite the compilers` best efforts, the annual > `blue page` frequency listings, only specifying a few major languages, are > inevitably outdated by the time they are printed, more and more so day by day > during the following year on the cover, with no attempt to provide any > updating, and thus cannot possibly compete with online info. Had some good > articles and illustrations, tho (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) > _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
