NEW WAVE SHORT WAVE
by Once upon a time the reception of radio and television broadcasts had a quasi-mystical aura to it. In the pioneer days of broadcasting, those interested in snatching sound and pictures out of the air often had to build their own radios and TV sets to do so.
REWIRE YOURSELF
NEW WAVE SHORT WAVE
by
Richard Robinson
Once upon a time the reception of radio and television broadcasts had a quasi-mystical aura to it. In the pioneer days of broadcasting, those interested in snatching sound and pictures out of the air often had to build their own radios and TV sets to do so. The actual fact of broadcasting, of the wireless, had an inherent excitement to it. Folks huddled around the first radios and TV sets as much in awe of the very fact of their existence as in the novelty of the messages received.
Well, repeater satellites, cable networks, and mass produced circuitry have eliminated the awe and novelty of the radio and TV broadcast. Today we not only take it for granted, we believe it; accepting its existence as part of the current natural order of things. Boxes of metal, glass, and plastic are considered a source of reality.
If there is any mystique left to broadcasting it is shortwave, the bands of radio frequencies used around the world by broadcasters to send out signals capable of reception thousands of miles away.