Posted by
Jim Low man on
Jul 16, 2012; 10:09pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Re-Another-End-of-an-Era-tp7559254p7559260.html
Maybe I missed something in the article, but I didn't read that BBC was
shutting
down; only that they were moving to a new location.
I was also unaware that CBC had gone silent on the shortwave bands.
Last time driving north from Bakersfield on Highway 99, I noticed that
the VOA
towers were conspicuous by their absence. We used to be able to see
them for
miles. Luckily, one day that we were at the International DX Convention in
Visalia circa 1999, we drove out to the site and were given a tour by a
friendly
engineer who was on duty at the time.
Which reminds me - I had intended to monitor the "Night of Nights" message
from KPH last Thursday, when I realized that not one radio that I have has
general coverage. Even with years of technological advances, I always
favored
those that were for the ham bands only. Classical thinking was that
designing
otherwise would degrade performance on the ham bands. Times have changed.
To bring things back on topic, it looks like I should order the bandpass
filter for
the K3 so that I can tune through the shortwave bands from time to time.
72/73 de Jim - AD6CW
On 7/16/2012 2:27 PM, David Moes wrote:
> Sad to see the national broadcasters like BBC and recently CBC (Radio
> Canada International) leaving the shortwave bands.
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