Re: [Swprograms] RNW to end shortwave usage to North America asofthe B-08 schedule change
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Re: [Swprograms] RNW to end shortwave usage to North America asofthe B-08 schedule change

I think the future is going to see universal wi-fi. It will be "like" radio, but on steroids. You'll be able to use radio like portable internet appliances and be able to have access to the data network at the same time. Obviously, the power needs of the boxes we use will have to addressed, but given what has already happened, its realistic to assume the problems will be worked out. 

Mike
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Anderson" <k9iua@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: "Shortwave programming discussion" <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] RNW to end shortwave usage to North America


-08 schedule change



Sandy,
To me it is not the "romance" of radio (although I feel that also), but a practicality and its simplistic/low-cost nature for the recipient. Unfortunately it is the high costs on the transmission side that are driving these decisions to cut broadcasts.
Strange at it may sound when I say it, I actually consider the future of Internet and computers for the average person to be short term and dated, to be reversed within my remaining lifetime even here in the U.S. It will be replaced by something not yet more technological, but the opposite, in a return to less technological means of communications, for which basic analogue radio will be well suited again. And this will be due to other forces, also economic in nature, but driven more by resources (or I should say the lack of), rising costs, and "security." I just hope international radio hangs on to see that day. Otherwise a very huge vacuum will develop for the average person in getting international news and programming. 

Kevin Anderson

--- On Fri, 9/19/08, Sandy Finlayson <sfinlayson@xxxxxxx> wrote:


From: Sandy Finlayson <sfinlayson@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] RNW to end shortwave usage to North America as ofthe B-08 schedule change 
To: "Shortwave programming discussion" <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, September 19, 2008, 11:10 AM
It's hard to argue that there is much life left in main
stream English
language short wave service at least in this part of the
world.  I do
miss the romance of radio, but have reluctantly joined the
ranks of the
podcast/webcast generation.

SF

--------------------------------------------------------
Mr. Sandy Finlayson
Philadelphia, PA


-----Original Message-----
From: swprograms-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:swprograms-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Kevin Anderson
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 12:04 PM
To: Shortwave programming discussion
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] RNW to end shortwave usage to
North America as
ofthe B-08 schedule change

Now I know shortwave is dead.  The one international
broadcaster who
argued most vehemently for keeping shortwave an option for
all.  A very
sad announcement indeed, because I am generally not a
podcast or online
listener, believing still in the medium of over-the-air
radio (and not
necessarily just in the broadcastable nature of spoken word
programming,
which I do believe in as well).  It puts on its head the
nature of who
is "privileged" in the world - I almost now want
to consider the
"privileged" to be the Indonesian, Pacific
Islander, Andean highlander,
or African resident who can still rely on "radio"
as radio.

Kevin Anderson

--- On Thu, 9/18/08, Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> From: Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Swprograms] RNW to end shortwave usage to
North America as
of the B-08 schedule change
> To: "Shortwave programming discussion"
<swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
odxa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "naswa"
<NASWA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 12:40 PM
> Sadly, Radio Netherlands has announced the end of
shortwave
> to North
> America as of the end of October.
>
> Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA




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