[Amps] Shortwave Returns? [Was: testing the biggest one]

[Djordan (personal)]

Huh?

The historic super power stations we either gov owned or subsidized. BBC thru the VOA!

The VOA went to low power regional HF to better target locations of interest...content is delivered by satellite.  

The Internet is/has replaced most of the old sat and microwave links in developed nations. Reliability is very good. It's all going to be digital over fiber to RF sources like cell towers or AM/FM remote control pods. Have you watched over the air TV lately?  It's ,on its last phase of evolution and then it's gone and those freqs will become CELLS com and PUBLIC SAFETY channels.  When the baby boomers are all gone so will be OTATV.  

Censorship???  Guess it depends what country you live in but in most of the developed world freedom of speech is doing so well it's embarrassing at times... Just watch the Tonight Show or FOX or HBO's Newsline or NETFLICKS award winning first effort at depicting operations at the US Capital... Clearly censorship has no home in AMERICAN TV.  

With the cost of energy superpower HF stations are history! You will need the Internet to research them and enjoy the pics from the old days...  Where I live we still have three towers used over 100 years ago to broadcast from USA east coast to Europe.  We had to petition to keep them from being knocked down for scrap...they are now historically preserved, for the time being.  The evolution of technology marches forward, it doesn't bend backwards for blips of political unrest or mis-perceptions of the under educated and those on the third world.  technology eventually reaches everyone at varying degrees of performance.  

Yesterday I flew across the USA... I had continuos Internet access from the Boeing 737. I brought up my Internet Remote Ham Station and operated from the my seat while flying at 39,000 ft.  Pretty amazing!

73,
Dave
Wa3gin


P.S.  I wouldn't spend a second trying to get a Short Wave Broadcast license... It would be very expensive and even if you were to succeed one indecent idiot that didn't like your point of view could destroy you station with much less effort then it took to build and license.  You would serve you passion better becoming a grand success at some skill or trade, make lots of money and use that money to influence you region, better yet find others of like mind and form a coalition to promote the change you think is necessary...the days of broadcasting what you think is the truth of truths are over...that's just in movie and those guys get killed fast! 

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On Aug 2, 2013, at 11:22 PM, "Fuqua, Bill L" <wlfuqu00 at uky.edu> wrote:

>   Shortwave has some advantages over other frequencies, such as AM or FM broadcast bands.
> One is that it penetrates rain forest and jungle foliage and the others can't.
> Also it has a large coverage area than they do. People in third world countries can
> use a cheap shortwave receiver to get news from all over. They don't need a computer
> or internet either just to get news and entertainment. 
> 
> 73
> Bill wa4lav
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Amps [amps-bounces at contesting.com] on behalf of qrv at kd4e.com [qrv at kd4e.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 7:47 PM
> To: amps at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Amps] Shortwave Returns? [Was: testing the biggest one]
> 
> Given the rush to government-censorship of freedom of speech all
> across the world the era of independent Shortwave transmitters
> should be returning.
> 
> How hard is it to get a license to broadcast on Shortwave, or
> perhaps to assume the license of one that has shut down?
> 
> 
>>>> . I challenge the same pundits to come up with a superior way to
>>>> generate RF power. Maybe in the sun?
>>> 
>>> REPLY:
>>> 
>>> How about the Internet? Seriously, the days of super power broadcast
>>> transmitters are coming to a close. WiFi or its equivalent and streaming
>>> content are spelling the doom of broadcasting as we have known it for
>>> decades. We're not there yet, it is on the horizon.
>> 
>> The Internet is too fragile and is at the mercy of the weather and man
>> made disasters.  While it is working it's great, but nature or vandals
>> could take out large portions.  We depend on our ISPs, they depend on
>> the trunklines.
>> 
>> 73
>> 
>> Roger (K8RI)
> 
> 
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> Thanks! & 73, KD4E.com
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