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

[Karl-Arne Markström]

It is all about "price/performance", or cost per prospective listener.
The Ministries of Propaganda have decided to use their funds for other 
purposes than HF broadcast.


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Från: g8on at fsmail.net
Datum: 2013-08-03 18:02
Till: "Richard Solomon"<dickw1ksz at gmail.com>, "amps at contesting.com"
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Ärende: Re: [Amps] Shortwave Returns? [Was: testing the biggest one]

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.

73

Peter G3RZP
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