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My biggest reason for pirating on shortwave is for the audience being played to. It's always dangerous to generalize, however, the typical SWL has a MUCH greater attention span than the typical INET user who uses their mouse much like a couch potato uses his/her TV remote. SWLs search the bands and get a thrill receiving an interesting signal. They will hang with you. They will listen. Often, they will attempt to make contact with you. And often I make another friend.
Most people under age 20 have no (or little) idea what a radio is. They get all their entertainment via smartphone. Which makes it ironic that Sprint is reportedly buying many Radio Shacks.
40 minutes after my post last night, with 4 pictures from 2 directions, 10 meters to the east closed down, and Asian stations started rolling in on 10 meters. Then the sweepers from the north west on 10 really started coming in.
1.6 MHz wide span centered on 29240 kHz, antenna pointed 320 degrees true. This is towards China for me, although naturally there are other nations along the same bearing.
