On 12/8/16, R.T.Liddy k8bl@ameritech.net wrote:
Sadly, when you tune across the SW Bands these daysyou don't hear very much. It seems that the Internet hasreplaced many of those wonderful high-power stationsthat used to fill those airwaves.. -BL
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Indeed that's the case. Many of those stations went off the air over the years. Many of their transmitters were old and spare parts were hard to come by. As well, they were often expensive to run. Streaming over the Internet cost considerably less.
I used to be a monitor for the BBC World Service. In 1999, it ended its broadcasts to North America and I was told that I could only hear it via the Internet after that.
Slowly, nearly all the familiar stations have gone silent. There are still some on the air, but many are usually heard in North America over existing relays that were used by other broadcasters in the old days. Aside from them, there are a few religious stations and that's about it.
Oh, well, it was fun while it lasted.
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL