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Ah shortwave. I don't have room to put up an antenna now, but I still have my trusty Realistic DX-380 with me. I can mostly pick up the American stations, but not much else these days. One interesting aspect about shortwave is how it's used around the world. Here in the so-called First World, shortwave radio is becoming obsolete. With the internet and wide spread terrestrial FM stations, we have easy access to news. Shortwave in North America and Europe is mainly for ex-pats working abroad to keep abreast of what's going on in their home country, or to broadcast signals into countries and regions with light news coverage. As we scale back on SW broadcasts, the stations and transmitters are being bought by religious broadcasters. Most SW signals in North America are from churches. In places like Africa and South America, SW broadcasts are the main way of getting news reports and emergency announcements to the citizenry. A UK company invented a cheap, wind up shortwave radio that doesn't run on batteries and these radios are widely distributed into remote areas for the people to hear newscasts. These broadcasts are very low power and often challenging to try to pick up in North America. These are often called Tropical Band stations and are down in the 3-7 kHz range. You'll mostly hear subtropical noise down there without an extremely sensitive antenna. Great idea for a thread AstroZamboni!
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