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    From RS Wood@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 1 01:54:37 2021
    From the «because it doesn't track you» department:
    Feed: The SWLing Post
    Title: Guest Post: Why listen to shortwave radio?
    Author: Thomas
    Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2021 06:00:33 -0400
    Link: https://swling.com/blog/2021/10/guest-post-why-listen-to-shortwave-radio/

    Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jock Elliott, who shares the following guest post: Why listen to shortwave radio? By Jock Elliott, KB2GOM Decades ago, an entrepreneur challenged his audience with a concept of critical importance: “Every once in a vhile, it is important to ask ourselves vhy are we in business?” He had a waaay cool Austrian […]



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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 1 06:45:03 2021
    On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 01:54:37 -0000 (UTC), RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
    wrote:

    Why listen to shortwave radio?

    If you have the time...

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Mon Nov 1 20:17:33 2021
    JAB <here@is.invalid> writes:

    On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 01:54:37 -0000 (UTC), RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
    wrote:

    Why listen to shortwave radio?

    If you have the time...

    Happily, you can simply have radio on in the background.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to fungus@amongus.com.invalid on Mon Nov 1 20:10:42 2021
    On Mon, 01 Nov 2021 20:17:33 -0400, Retrograde
    <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    have radio on in the background.

    Signal may fade in and out....

    Good quality SW radios are much cheaper these days...


    To get you started, here are some of the shortwave radio online
    streaming options to try today:

    BBC World Service (UK)
    National Public Radio (USA)
    Radio Canada International (CAN)
    Radio Australia (AU)
    NHK (Japan)
    Deutsche Welle (GER)
    Radio France (FR)
    Radio Netherlands

    https://radiofidelity.com/can-you-listen-to-shortwave-radio-online/

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 16 19:19:05 2021
    On Mon, 01 Nov 2021 20:17:33 -0400, Retrograde
    <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    Grundig use to have some fine radios, and I have seen the name Eton
    associated with Grundig. Grundig was eventually sold to Arcelik A.S

    Nice one:
    https://etoncorp.com/products/elite750 https://www.amazon.com/Eton-Classic-Clear-Sounding-Shortwave-NELITE750/dp/B08BVSCY8G/

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