"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
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David Eduardo wrote:

But they don't use it. In the last year, in the Mexico City, Guadalajara
and
Monterrey ratings, there was not one mention of SW broadcasts as being
listened to.... out of a sample of about 50,000 persons. This means that
SW
reaches less than 0.01% of listeners in these cities with a combined
population of over 35 million.

Which brings to mind... whatever happened to the shortwave outlet of the
college radio station in Mexico City? They were on the air just a few
years ago.

Equipment wore our and they decided not to budget for replacement

I think what will keep shortwave going is that it's fairly inexpensive to
hang a small shortwave outlet off an existing station or network. Even if
you are broadcasting primarily on a network of FM stations, hanging a
small
1KW shortwave transmitter off your net adds fairly minimal cost and these
days pretty low maintenance. It doesn't get you a huge audience, but
that's okay. I think the 250KW powerhouses are doomed, though.

Those stations in Latin America that operate as FM nets already have the
necessary domestic coverage. SW in that area will increasingly be exclusive
to cultural, religious and such type broadcasters who can afford to run
stations with no "measurable" audience.

It's probably well known in ham circles that you can
talk to the astronauts from time to time in a special
ham session, but one was actually shown on the
IMAX film. I'm sure that it surprised some people
who will see the film that you can actually do that

back when the MIR was still orbiting earth, I and several friends had a
few QSO's with them on Packet radio, nothing like getting to talk via
keyboard to our russian friends in space. I lost the copies I had of
these, but one friend still has the text file of his and my "talks"
with MIR...

73 de Dave
N0TXW

It was in real life. It happened during the first crew
stayover in the ISS.

--Mike L.


"LittleGreenAlien" wrote in message
news:xipjbhszhajxduh.050720050821@kirk...
be better to see it happening in real life than a fictional movie

"Michael Lawson" wrote in message
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Yesterday, my wife and I took the family to go see the
new IMAX film in our area, on the International Space
Station (ISS). The film was well done (with the exception
of listening to Tom Cruise narrating while his well
publicized mid-life crisis is ongoing), and there was
an interesting amateur radio component as well.

It's probably well known in ham circles that you can
talk to the astronauts from time to time in a special
ham session, but one was actually shown on the
IMAX film. I'm sure that it surprised some people
who will see the film that you can actually do that.

It's actually nice to see kids using amateur radio
for a change, instead of what we've been subjected
to (old farts, a dying hobby, etc.) for the past age
or so.

--Mike L.