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

[peter chadwick]

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.

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Peter G3RZP