Subj : Shortwave
To   : Blue White
From : Brian Murrey
Date : Tue Mar 08 2022 21:28:03

//Hello Blue,//

on *08.03.22* at *21:15:14* You wrote in area *FSX_GEN*
to *Indy SWL* about *"Re: Shortwave"*.

 -=>> Indy SWL wrote to All <=-

 IS>> Do we have a shortwave radio echo area?

 BW> No.  I don't currently have a radio capable of picking up shortwave, but
 BW> I
 BW> used to enjoy listening when I was a young teen.  WRNO out of New Orleans
 BW> was available on shortwave, and played rock-and-roll, back then.  As this
 BW> was during the Cold War, I also enjoyed listening to Radio Moscow, like a
 BW> spy, as if they might give away some secret.

 BW> I would sometimes pick up stations where it sounded like someone was
 BW> shouting to the masses in Spanish.  I had taken at least half-a-year of
 BW> Spanish by then but they talked too fast for me to make any of it out.

Shortwave is very different now.  I used to listen a lot on a home made crystal reciver I built in the 7th grade. About 1972 or 1973. Lots of fun stuff back then.  Nowadays it's mostly China, although the BBC has restarted its wartime bureau and they broadcast a few hours a day to Ukraine.  It's all propaganda, and probably was back in the 70's.  I used to enjoy laying in bed at night and listening to latin music on my crystal set.  Radio Havanna was huge, Radio Moscow, always liked listening to the "Happy Station" out of the Netherlands...good stuff back then.  I think the VOA is still on the air but I'd have to check.  LOADS and LOADS of doomsday preachers begging for cash.

I worked in Franfort back in the early 1990's.  KETC was one of my largest customers, so I was at the capitol quite frequently.  I also made it out to Bell County, and out near Pineville doing a few IT jobs here and there.  Almost got crushed by a coal truck coming out of Corbin one night, he came down the mountain and didn't have any brakes.  I got out of his way with half a second to spare. I reckon he made it, I didn't see him in the ditch any where. 

    

Regards,
Brian 
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