Re: [Swprograms] [ODXA] Re: PWBR publishing on hold

[Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>]

It depends on how one uses the blue pages.  For domestic broadcasters
that didn't adjust frequencies every six months, the blue pages were a
helpful way to get a quick look at who might be on a given frequency
at a given time.

When I first got back into the hobby in the mid-1980s (after a 15-year
hiatus), just seeing the geographic diversity embodied in the
frequency spectrum helped to motivate me to get active.  I had
purchased Passport before I had purchased my first new shortwave radio
(the GE World Monitor...from NYC area electronics chain "Crazy
Eddie's").

Nowadays, the availability of instantly-updated spreadsheets and
documents provides accuracy and value that can't be matched by a guide
updated only once per year, but certainly Passport has been an
important resource for my radio listening -- even in the World Wide
Web era - for 20+ years.

Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Glenn Hauser<wghauser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I would say if anything, it`s good news for the WRTH! I expect that PWBR readers have realised that despite the compilers` best efforts, the annual `blue page` frequency listings, only specifying a few major languages, are inevitably outdated by the time they are printed, more and more so day by day during the following year on the cover, with no attempt to provide any updating, and thus cannot possibly compete with online info. Had some good articles and illustrations, tho (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
>

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