Why Is Shortwave Only “the Radio of Last Resort”?
Its powerful new capabilities remain largely unexplored
By Simon Keens ⋅Its powerful new capabilities remain largely unexplored
Published: March 20, 2024, https://www.radioworld.com
The whole article is at https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and- ... ast-resort
SW is still relevant to bypass extensive internet censoring prevalent in may parts of the world. Jamming is ineffective because of multi-hop propagation, skip distance effects. Analog SW broadcasts are easy and inexpensive to receive with no internet provider fees or dependence on VPNs. DRM transmissions are a good solution to audio quality criticisms, and as this article shows, Radio New Zealand deploys such broadcasts to the Pacific Islands already.
The counter argument is that SW transmitters are more expensive to run than an internet stream, and anyway everyone in the world has an internet streaming cellphone. Well not everyone, and very few have one with VPN capability that gives true unhindered access to the worl…login to view the rest of this post