That statement could also be made about receivers for the AM band.
"Top Twenty" was a must-listen for me in the late '60s/early '70s. It was a half-hour show, so there wasn't enough time to play the entire chart, but the new entries, big movers and top five always got played. I don't remember "Records 'Round the World." When was that on?
Records 'Round the World would have been early to mid 70s. I sorta remember the jingle.
Ah, about the time I was graduating from high school and entering college. As with most guys, shortwave had kind of taken a back seat to, ummmm, other interests by those years!
But to want a SW receiver one has to know what Shortwave is. Most people under 50 to 60 do not. And what remains on SW today is mostly preaching and propaganda.
No, nearly all stand-alone radios in the consumer price range have AM and FM. Of course, what people are buying are Alexa devices and their equivalents; AM and FM stations are getting significant additional listening that way.
But what is there to listen to... and how many people even know what short wave is? You want international stations, you stream them.
At the same time, most other nations have suspended SW broadcasts entirely. Nations in Africa and Latin America used to have their national radio station on SW. Now, they are all on AM and FM networks.
Yep, including a lot of small form 'throw-down' FM transmission facilities that could be packed into a road case and deployed on top of a local tall building. Can't do that with MW or SW.
Well, I am in New York City, which is about 350 miles from Toronto, and I currently cannot pick CFRX up, day or night.
Right now at 0817 local time in Atlanta, its daytime, and I'm hearing CFRX, faintly, on 6070 kHz.
Yes, and US domestic shortwave is not officially permitted. These comments are just thoughts and suggestions on allowing and setting up such a domestic service.
For what purpose? As mentioned previously, hardly anyone has a shortwave radio receiver.
See message number 1 of this thread.
I suspect it has nothing to do with what actually sounds superior, but more-so nostalgia. That's a pretty tiny subsection of media consumption.
If I'm not mistaken, before it closed down years ago, that same freq 6070 was used by CKZU Vancouver, simulcasting CBU 690. I remember marveling at a perfectly listenable signal that used only 500 watts providing CBC programming up and down the West Coast! If you tried to listen to 690 directly, you could just make out CBU's audio underneath XETRA from the other B.C. and this interference existed all the up to and beyond Portland!
Yes, I did read your original post. However, whoever plans to establish a shortwave radio operation in the US must prepare to lose a lot of money. Not only do most people in the US not have a shortwave receiver, but they also do not know what DRM is.
That, and DRM ain't happening in the US and several other countries. It's not that there's anything wrong with DRM, it actually works very well. DRM just never became a selected standard.
Thank you, you're right, I remember it was 6160, right in the middle of the 49m band. Funny how this is something I hadn't thought about in probably 40 years...how time flies!
In the past, the VOA marketing reps would work with contractors in the coverage area of the affiliates and report if the VOA programming is aired on the stations being paid for the program time. Is it 100% foolproof? Probably not.
