I never got along with ham radio operators.
Since I was a teenager I've listened to shortwave radio broadcasts-- also far-away AM radio broadcasts at night, what![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
tephra or ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tephralynn calls "Listening to Static." There's no real reason to do it any more; you can get all the foreign information you want, direct from foreign sources, over the Internet. (Until the Tea Party brings the McCarthy Era back and starts protecting you from truths they want to pretend don't exist.) Back then, though, if you wanted the foreign perspective on the news, uncensored, you got a shortwave receiver.
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Since I was a teenager I've listened to shortwave radio broadcasts-- also far-away AM radio broadcasts at night, what
tephra or tephralynn calls "Listening to Static." There's no real reason to do it any more; you can get all the foreign information you want, direct from foreign sources, over the Internet. (Until the Tea Party brings the McCarthy Era back and starts protecting you from truths they want to pretend don't exist.) Back then, though, if you wanted the foreign perspective on the news, uncensored, you got a shortwave receiver.( Story! )
