If you lack a shortwave radio and a dig around all your family’s junk hasn’t turned up a relic from decades past, then the simplest way to get one is of course to buy one. If those shortwave transmissions are starting again, how can their intended audience pick them up? Perhaps it’s time to look at shortwave radios with a 2022 slant.
We can get instant access to almost any content online, so it’s by no means certain people will have a radio. Though many of us still listen to radio here in 2022 the chances are that we no longer do so over AM and certainly not over shortwave. From 1930s families clustered round an ornate family radio to the teenagers of the 1960s and 1970s with their portables, it’s a defining 20th century image. There was a time when everyone had a radio, and radio listening was a universal occupation. Donald Trung Quoc Don (Chữ Hán: 徵國單) CC BY-SA 4.0 International.
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Whatever Happened To The Portable Radio? A typical small world band radio. Owning a shortwave radio in Russia may once again be a subversive activity. With most external news agencies thrown out of Russia and their websites blocked, international broadcasters are launching new shortwave services to get the news through. It’s a long-gone era as the Cold War is a distant memory and citizens East and West get their info from the Internet, but perhaps there’s an echo of those times following the invasion of the Ukraine.
Some of them were slightly surreal such as Albania’s Radio Tirana which would proudly inform 1980s Western Europe that every village in the country now possessed a telephone, but most stations were the more mainstream ideological gladiating of Voice of America and Radio Moscow. An abiding memory for a teen fascinated by electronics and radio in the 1970s and 1980s is the proliferation of propaganda stations that covered the shortwave spectrum.
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