Re: [IRCA] Radio DXing Hobby Threatened With Extinction

[Bill B <ka2emz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Giella KN4LF wrote:

> **
> **Thomas KN4LF Says:**
> *Once again my observations are not doom and gloom, I was simply 
> taking stock of the present situation within the radio hobby. If 
> we refrain from discussing what's happening it won't make things 
> magically change for the better. On the contrary we should all be 
> DXing more not turning our radios off. Amid the negative trends I've 
> spent more money on the hobby than I have ever before.*
> * *
> *** *
> **Bill KA2EMZ Said:**
> *Wrong...it was full of the sky is falling, that this is going away,
> thats going away.....take alisten around the bands....they are not 
> dead yet!
> *
> *** *
> **Thomas KN4LF Said:
> Nobody cried doom and gloom, you are over reacting to the thread.**
> *** *
> ** 
> *Bill KA2EMZ Said:*
> *Okay, lets all turn off our radios....turn off your TVs....just give
> up.....well, sorry, but, thats not what I am about to do. If BPL is*
> *instituted in your area, you have a choice- complain to the power
> company or go silent. I plan to be a nuisance to JCP&L if it (BPL)
> rolls nto New Jersey. Annoy your local power firms. If IBOC is driving
> you up wall- annoy your local radoi station with phone calls- there is
> absolutley NO reason to look at this as the sky is falling. Does*
> *anyone hink that Verizon is gonna continue to charge $30 a month for 
> DSL IF
> BPL is instituted? As it is now, you can get broadband phone service
> thats unlimited as far as calls go for under $30 a month. So cmon
> folks, ts NOT all doom and gllom. The galss is is still full and not 
> half empty.
> Wrong...it was full of the sky is falling, that this is going away,
> thats going away.....take alisten around the bands....they are not 
> dead yet!
> *
> ** 
> ** 
> *Thomas KN4LF Said:*
> *It seems like every aspect of the radio DXing hobby is threatened 
> with extinction. *
> ** 
> *On LF aviation beacons are steadily disappearing, the marine beacons 
> are gone, as well as the marine shore stations. But I guess we still 
> have the international broadcasters, part 15 beacons on 160-190 kc and 
> hams on 136 kc.  *
> ** 
> *On MF it's IBOC as well as many stations going silent due to non 
> profitability, plus other issues. *
> ** 
> *On HF international and regional broadcasters are disappearing, with 
> 120 and 90 meters virtually empty now and 60 meters waning, the threat 
> of BPL and SW clubs closing. *
> ** 
> *Ham radio is losing spectrum to commercial interests, technical 
> standards are being dumbed down, plus the threat of BPL. *
> ** 
> *In the VHF/UHF scanning hobby it's trunked radio systems.*
> ** 
> *I've never DXed the TV and FM broadcast bands so don't know about that.*
> ** 
> *The future looks pretty grim to me.*
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Well then I do agree that we should get back yo our hobby. I agree with 
you there.

Bill


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