[Swprograms] OT: Helping a Tropical Station

[David Goren <dbgoren@xxxxxxxxx>]

My apologies if this is off topic, although I think this resonates with 
the loss of any kind of world band station or language service. Also, 
the tropical stations style of programming is often very interesting.

Someone posted on Hardcore DX a rather downbeat assessment that there 
are very few stations on the tropical bands anymore, due to transmitter 
failure, lack of parts, economic difficulties etc. Some people jumped 
in saying  that stations are declining, but there is still a fair 
amount of activity.

Here was my response:

"I agree with Aart and Guy. I'm still hearing interesting things from 
my Brooklyn, NY location. I do notice a difference though, and lament 
the trend.

Allow me to fantasize for a moment:

What if SWL's/DXer's acted in certain ways like hams, who marshall 
great amounts of resources to conduct DXpeditions on pieces of rock in 
the middle of various oceans, or go to tiny countries to operate. What 
if some folks in our listening community banded together, and selected 
certain inactive stations, and helped to  rejuvenate them for the good 
of the local community, and incidentally also for the good of DXing? 
Many DX'ers have the technical knowhow, to put some of these stations 
back on the air, and others may have the expertise to help raise funds 
to provide parts and other kinds of support. Such an activity may not 
ultimately fill the bands with stations, but would impact the local 
community, and maybe make us feel less helpless/hopeless in the face of 
change in our hobby."

I guess what I want to ask folks is this: has there ever been any 
concerted effort made to support these stations. After all, it seems 
like an organized group of SWL's/DX'ers could help to keep a tropical 
station on the air in the ways I mention above. Whereas, asking the BBC 
or Kol Israel to change policy is more like tilting at windmills.


'

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