[RFI] San Diego BPL

[digital-conjurers@adelphia.net]

Dale,

Good point.  I think (this is pure speculation) that since SW broadcasting to the developed world has become less and less an interest of the public at large, the International SW broadcasting community might have been hit with management philosophies that are far too enamoured of The Net; take the BBC for example:  in an act of complete idiocy, they killed SW broadcasts to the US three years or so back, and all the howling the US SWL community did came to nothing.  "Well, you can get the BBC through The Net, Satellite, and local FM in the US," they reasoned.  

[Some reasoning.  The US is a very large country, with varied terrain; if you don't have Net access, or your ISP is acting up, you just can't get a BBC news bulletin anywhere, anytime in the US on FM, and not everyone has satellite, even in rural areas.]

Faced with mounting financial pressures, the relative _appearant_ cheapness (management reasons to itself) of Net delivery versus maintaining an antenna farm, extra staff and a power bill for several 500 KW SW Xmtrs seems, on the surface, an attractive deal.

Unfortunately, most upper-management-level individuals at state-run broadcasting houses in developed countries these days have less and less experience of the true value of SW radio, and are more enamored of the Net.  It's obvious advantages have been outweighed by the bean-counters, who run everything today, it seems.

But truly, I wonder with you, why more protest over BPL hasn't been heard from them. Maybe it has...but I've not heard it.

-Lin

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At 04:29 PM 03/02/2005, you wrote:
>I'm happy to hear someone bringing this up.  I started my interest in ham radio by SWLing back in the mid fifties.  I still listen to SW today.   It would be a shame to have the SW broadcast bands wiped out due to BPL.  Where are the SW broadcasters and why don't they weigh in on this issue.
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>Dale