On 2013-08-03, at 12:02 PM, peter chadwick wrote:
> There's still a lot of Africa and some Asian countries e.g. parts of rural
> India and rural Bangladesh who have no mains electricity, internet or money
> for TVRO satellite equipment, where a battery powered HF receiver is about
> all they can have. Probably the same applies to a fair amount of rural China,
> too, and certainly to rural North Korea, where the censorship is heavy. But
> whether the number of listeners and their influence is enough to justify
> super power HFBC is another matter. Depends on just how much one figures the
> propaganda is worth.
>
> Fifty years ago, practically every newly independent nation 'HAD' to have its
> HFBC for the 'Voice of Swazibanana' or whatever, in the same way as they
> 'HAD' to have an national airline flying internationally. Now it seems to be
> realised that these, in general, can't be afforded.
>
Yes, Peter...
You are so correct with that last statement!
I recall back in the late 60's---as an avid, teenaged budding SWL---picking-up
"Radio Free Biafra" on my Hallicrafters S-77A receiver. I thought that I was
riding upon the cusp of developing real-time history at the time...
Quite an accomplishment, IMHO, then!
~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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