US Domestic Shortwave

[gr8oldies]

I haven't seen Hauser's stuff in quite awhile. I remember in the 70s he wasn't a fan of religious broadcasting, and felt the commercial spectrum should all be turned over to public broadcasting. He worked here in Knoxville at WUOT at one time, I'd think he'd be retired by now.

 

[Mitch Brewer]

Hey BobF, that was a great quality recording. I don't think I could pick up the numbers that clear even when I lived in Merritt Island, FL. Thanks for the post. FWIW, I was listening to 11635 today on my portable Grundig and I could make out every # but when I tried to listen on the Key West SDR at the same time I couldn't clearly understand anything and mostly couldn't hear it at all.

 

[anotherguyTN]

I just spent $200 last week for airtime on WRMI to relay a Friday night show I do on a small Alaska non comm... $200 of my own money.. its quite clear few are listening to commercial shortwave and it wouldnt work in the US these days, but it's fun to do.. so many like Glenn Hauser complain about whats on Shortwave but do nothing about changing it... I do!

What little SW listening I do is on online SDRs. If there were more programs like yours and less of the crackpot preachers I might actually listen more!

 

[CTListener]

LOTs of listeners and contributions. It's a few old guys like him, here and there donating. I dont solicit for contributions and dont generally want them.. i dont wanna be beholden to people who think they are owed somehting. So once a quarter or so I reach into my own pocket.

Glenn doesn't do anything to keep anyone in the hobby....

What can he or anyone else say to keep people in the hobby? International broadcasting is a dry, rattling husk. Domestic SW is nearing extinction worldwide, other than evangelical stations, whose entertainment value to most listeners is nil. Most nights, the busiest frequencies are in the HF ham bands, which can be entertaining, but since all the conversations are spontaneous and generally random, what would there be for Hauser to say about them?

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

What can he or anyone else say to keep people in the hobby? International broadcasting is a dry, rattling husk. Domestic SW is nearing extinction worldwide, other than evangelical stations, whose entertainment value to most listeners is nil. Most nights, the busiest frequencies are in the HF ham bands, which can be entertaining, but since all the conversations are spontaneous and generally random, what would there be for Hauser to say about them?

Not that I'm so great but hes incredibly rude when someone gets it wrong, very dismissive and expects everyone to read everything he ever puts out. I've asked a quesiton or two over time and he says "Well, if youd read my logs form.. such and such date.. youd know the answer..."

 

[SWL_Observer]

Not that I'm so great but hes incredibly rude when someone gets it wrong, very dismissive and expects everyone to read everything he ever puts out. I've asked a quesiton or two over time and he says "Well, if youd read my logs form.. such and such date.. youd know the answer..."

I agree with you, I've had some bad experiences with him as well - he's very quick to criticize and if you bring any of that up you'll be "excommunicated" from his group.

I caught some of your request show last week and enjoyed it! This medium is probably nearing the end (in its current form anyway) but at least there's still opportunities out there to make the most of what's left.

 

[davideduardo]

I agree with you, I've had some bad experiences with him as well - he's very quick to criticize and if you bring any of that up you'll be "excommunicated" from his group.

I've had some discussions with him, including differences in opinion about a station I was actually the management and programming consultant for! (Apparently I was not aware of what my own client was doing...).

And I had disagreements on Radio Martí, despite my being employed by the parent government control board to audit that station at the time.

Of course, I'm known to have strong opinions, too, at times.

 

[gr8oldies]

I've had some discussions with him, including differences in opinion about a station I was actually the management and programming consultant for! (Apparently I was not aware of what my own client was doing...).

And I had disagreements on Radio Martí, despite my being employed by the parent government control board to audit that station at the time.

Of course, I'm known to have strong opinions, too, at times.

Who'd a thunk?

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

I agree with you, I've had some bad experiences with him as well - he's very quick to criticize and if you bring any of that up you'll be "excommunicated" from his group.

I caught some of your request show last week and enjoyed it! This medium is probably nearing the end (in its current form anyway) but at least there's still opportunities out there to make the most of what's left.

I even told him once... "glenn, I'm sorry but i dont have time to read much of what you put out and can't be expected to remember something from a few weeks ago, let alone a few months. This is a hobby for me not a job"

 

[boombox4]

I also wasn't a fan of Glenn's opinions injected into the World of Radio SW logs, as if every single religious broadcaster was a "huckster". Okay, one might think that about preacher radio shows but how does that injecting that opinion into the logs help SW broadcasters, some like HCJB (at the time), many of whose programs probably weren't populated by "hucksters", but just regular preachers?

But the 'World of Radio' log was his deal, his show, and enough SWLs followed it regularly, so who am I to argue with that.

 

[BFaucett]

"Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)"

😁

 

[davideduardo]

I also wasn't a fan of Glenn's opinions injected into the World of Radio SW logs, as if every single religious broadcaster was a "huckster". Okay, one might think that about preacher radio shows but how does that injecting that opinion into the logs help SW broadcasters, some like HCJB (at the time), many of whose programs probably weren't populated by "hucksters", but just regular preachers?

And his dismissal of HCJB was and is unfortunate. They did marvelous medical and educational work in rural Ecuador, particularly with indigenous peoples.

 

[gr8oldies]

And his dismissal of HCJB was and is unfortunate. They did marvelous medical and educational work in rural Ecuador, particularly with indigenous peoples.

On the air, HCJB was obviously on the conservative side of Evangelicalism, dishing out a touch of rapture anxiety but they didn't suffer hucksters (no Garner Ted, no Brother Stair, etc.) They had their own choir which was cool.....and they would even sing phonetically in Japanese. Their "Studio 70" and later "A New Song" were my introduction to the emerging "Jesus Rock" (i.e. Larry Norman) which morphed into Contemporary Christian (although they sent me a tract from David Wilkerson proclaiming that Rock and Roll was of Satan...not just the lyrics) At that time there was virtually no distribution of those records outside of church concerts. GH used to complain about the devotional message in "DX Party Line", but, duh, that's the commercial. HCJB was a first shortwave catch for many of us.

 

[boombox4]

To be fair and accurate here, I don't personally recall Glenn deriding HCJB per se. But I recall plenty of times he referred to religious SW broadcasters as "hucksters", painting the entire genre with a broad brush, which I thought was unfair -- regardless of what one might think of religion.

Like Gr8oldies mentions, HCJB was one of the first SW catches for a lot of us. That and Radio Nederland.

 

[Mediafrog+]

To be fair and accurate here, I don't personally recall Glenn deriding HCJB per se. But I recall plenty of times he referred to religious SW broadcasters as "hucksters", painting the entire genre with a broad brush, which I thought was unfair -- regardless of what one might think of religion.

Hauser's disdain for religious broadcasters was probably formed in the 1950s and 60s, when religious broadcasting mainly consisted of either church service recordings, or preachers ranting on the air. While there were some decent religious broadcasters at that time, most tended to be angry, sociopathic, bigoted charlatans who mainly screamed at the listeners...and there was plenty of extreme right-wing politics mixed in as well (anyone remember Carl McIntire on WINB?)

Religious broadcasting began to become much slicker and sophisticated starting in the 1970s, when religious leaders finally realized that the old evangelization methods and music were no longer effective at reaching an audience, and that few people wanted to listen to dreary hymns from the 18th and 19th centuries any more. Early Christian Contemporary Music was quite a breathtaking change.

 

[davideduardo]

Hauser's disdain for religious broadcasters was probably formed in the 1950s and 60s, when religious broadcasting mainly consisted of either church service recordings, or preachers ranting on the air.

Hauser would not have been much of a radio listener in the 50's, as by the end of the decade he was only 15. Even for much of the 60's it's unlikely that a teen would have been paying much attention to religion on the radio other than to tune past them on the radio.

On shortwave, religion was typified by TWR and HCJB, both quite responsible and reasonable broadcasters.

 

[Marcos_C]

Hauser would not have been much of a radio listener in the 50's, as by the end of the decade he was only 15.

Well, I was 15 years old when I started listening to shortwave radio, and I was well aware of stations that broadcast Christian programming, including Family Radio's WYFR.