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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: ChrisSmolinski on July 05, 2012, 2211 UTC

Title: Tuning out - A cold-war stalwart goes out of fashion
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on July 05, 2012, 2211 UTC

TWIDDLE the dial of a short-wave radio and you never know what you will get. Through the hiss of static you may hear Cuban propaganda, football from Brazil or Chinese opera. Unlike other radio broadcasts, short-wave transmissions, bouncing off the ionosphere, can connect any two points on earth. One hazard is physics: signals wane and wax during the day. Another is governments. In the cold war communist regimes jammed Western stations. Now the threat is budget cuts...

http://www.economist.com/node/21558247 (http://www.economist.com/node/21558247)

Title: Re: Tuning out - A cold-war stalwart goes out of fashion
Post by: zackers on July 10, 2012, 1703 UTC

I'm very sad to see both of these stations go and wonder who will be next.

I used to listen to Radio Netherlands Worldwide every Sunday when Eddie Startz did the Happy Station Program. I guess those days are gone forever.