Has internet radio KILLED Shortwave Radio or actually improved it ?

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• VU

  @Vuchko-Ukraine · 3 years ago · pinned

  Good on ya Fred, Good stuff. I live in Urkaine for almsot a decade and a Donbas refugee in west Ukraine. I use internet SW SDR sites every now and then to get real radio signals streamed to me, but same problem, no internet no online SDR. I am definitely going ot buy a budget SW radio after checking out some more of your recommendations in the back catalogue of yours!

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• PA

  @paulthurstonaviation · 2 years ago

  There is something magical about plucking a radio signal from thin air after its bounced and skipped half way round the world that no digital media could ever compete with.

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• US

  @uslines · 2 months ago

  I can't imagine not having at least one good battery/AC all band radio in the the house. Total reliance on the internet very unwise.

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• RO

  @RonaldParker-r4y · 2 years ago

  I recall back in the late 70's early 1980's listening to the BBC in Vermont on a shortwave receiver in out kitchen.  The unit had a two foot antenna when extended fully.  We could receive the UK and many other countries when they had their broadcasts over the air.  It's still a decent way to bypass censors, cut power and cable lines, as well as geo-blocked internet content.  Shortwave technology should be broght back into areas of conflict to ensure th truth, whatever that is, gets heard.

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• BE

  @bent2612 · 2 years ago

  I was gonna buy a sw radio but it looks like Fred already bought them all.

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• LI

  @Lightw81 · 2 years ago

  I remember when an antenna was an aerial.

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• NZ

  @NZobservatory · 2 years ago

  One of life’s greatest moments: on the deck of a boat in the middle of the ocean on a warm night beneath a vast galaxy of stars, listening to distant SW stations broadcasting in languages I didn’t speak.

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• JI

  @jimmiller9330 · 2 years ago

  On that bad day, when the internet goes down, you will be happy to have a real radio.

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• MA

  @MagicRoosterBluesBand · 2 years ago

  When the power goes out, radio is the ONLY game in town.

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• DO

  @dobythedog · 3 years ago

  Good point. Everybody should have a radio as a basic way of receiving information outside of the internet.

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• LE

  @leonvanderlinde5580 · 3 years ago

  The internet is around 1% reliable during a disaster. Shortwave has no borders and dead cell towers.

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• TH

  @thomassouthard5535 · 9 months ago

  At 11yo I found an old radio that had a selection SW. I had a table with the radio sitting on it. I was moving the antenna around, and the antenna touched our chain link fence.<br>WOW! I was hearing people speaking different languages! How did this happen? To the library I went, and became a vacuum cleaner when it came to anntena information. I never looked back!<br>I found that the longer or shorter I made the wire,I could hear different stations! Got my first CB at 13, (tubes, and before circuit boards) got zapped alot, but learned a lot more!🤣 I was very bad with morse code, but really understood theory. Couldn&apos;t pass the novice test. Now retired, and no morose code required, I took the Tech &amp; Gen tests together. Now, back into the hobby I loved as a child. All of that knowledge I gained as a teen is now paying off.

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