Re: [IRCA] DXers under the age of 30

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Although most young people wouldn't fork over for Satellite radio either when the other options are cheaper, more convenient, and work with hardware they already have.

Russ Edmunds
15 mi NNW of Philadelphia  
Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'; Grundig G8
AM:  Modified Sony ICF 2010's barefoot


--- On Wed, 4/6/11, Rene Tetro <rtetro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Rene Tetro <rtetro@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] DXers under the age of 30
> To: "'Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America'" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 12:25 PM
> You're right, Russ.  Even at my
> age (59), as one who cut his DX teeth and
> listening habits in the 60s, I have to admit that unless I
> am specifically
> listening for DX, I very rarely listen to terrestrial radio
> anymore,
> especially AM.  I just get way too frustrated with the
> noise (IBOC hash,
> static, etc).  
> 
> Most of my listening in the car is XM.  At home and at
> my work office at I
> have internet radios and listen to them (even to local
> stations that
> stream).  It just sounds better.  So, I can
> easily see how young people who
> were not raised on AM (or even FM) to any extent see radio
> as an archaic
> media form that does not meet their needs or
> interests.  Why listen to what
> programmers want you to hear when you can get whatever you
> want through an
> Ipod, Iphone, satellite radio, or other medium?
> 
> Rene'
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Russ Edmunds
> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 12:00 PM
> To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of
> America
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] DXers under the age of 30
> 
> Terrestrial radio is not relevant to most younger people
> because they can
> get whatever content they are after via a mobile phone or a
> PC or a
> Blackberry. There are more than ample computer/phone games
> to keep people
> busy if they like competition.
> 
> But, as has already been noted by myself and others,
> hobbies which are in
> the collecting mode ( DX'ers collects stations heard and/or
> recordings
> and/or veries ) as well as those which utilize what younger
> folks view as
> obsolete and/or archaic technologies ( and there we are
> again ) are all in
> the same boat - no growth, mostly shrinkage.
> 
> I'm afraid this is nothing more than the natural order of
> human interests.
> 
> 
> Russ Edmunds
> 15 mi NNW of Philadelphia  
> Grid FN20id
> <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
> FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'; Grundig
> G8
> AM:  Modified Sony ICF 2010's barefoot
> 
> 
> 
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