Secure High Speed Digital Communication: The Future of Shortwave Broadcasting?

Since shortwave frequency transmissions interact with the ionosphere, broadcasts propagate many thousands of kilometres over the horizon without any intermediate delay. Using new digital technology and 64-QAM transmission, rapid digital encoding allows significantly greater data rates than possible with lower frequency transmissions.

Read about this interesting development at :

http://ampegon.com/news/?id=68

CBC president says broadcaster can't 'be all things to all people'

TORONTO - The beleaguered CBC is seeking tenants for office space it owns across the country in a bid to generate revenue that would help it cover a multimillion shortfall.
Hubert Lacroix, president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada, said Thursday the broadcaster hopes to generate $50 million through various measures that include putting ads on Radio 2 and leasing more than 74,000 square metres of real estate by 2017.



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http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/cbc-president-says-broadcaster-cant-be-all-things-to-all-people-157858795.htmlalo

Shortwave Broadcasters Mull Their Opportunities

by Alexis Hauk
A large portion of presentations at the National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters meeting, held in Washington in May, centered on the issue of how shortwave radio — dismissed by some as in its last throes, a relic of the Cold War era disappearing under the shadow of digital — can eke out a place in the 21st century.

More at :
http://www.radioworld.com/article/shortwave-broadcasters-mull-their-opportunities/213810

Going gaga over the radio

In this day and age while everyone is glued to television sets, this dedicated group of men from various walks of life, still ardently listens to the radio.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/madurai/Going-gaga-over-the-radio/articleshow/12929283.cms

Radio Australia increases shortwave broadcasts to Papua New Guinea due to political crisis

Radio Australia has increased its shortwave broadcasts to Papua New Guinea, to help inform people about developments in the PNG political crisis. Between 0930 and 1700 Port Moresby time, an extra frequency, 17750 kHz, will be added to the broadcast services for PNG. This is in addition to the current shortwave services and Radio Australia?s 24-hour FM services in Port Moresby (101.9FM) and Lae (102.1FM).

Read the full story here : http://australianetworknews.com/stories/201112/3392709.htm?desktop

VOA Cannot Retreat from China

by Jing Zhang
President
Women’s Rights in China

I remember an afternoon forty years ago. My father furiously slapped my uncle. The argument was behind closed doors and hushed. I couldn’t make out the reason. Later my sister told me that uncle listened to “the enemy station”—Voice of America—on the radio. Father said that we could be shot for listening to enemy stations. I had no idea what “Voice of America” was, only vaguely remembered the name from then on.

As I grew up, I learned to listen to short-wave broadcasts. Democracy, freedom and human rights became my lifelong passion, which entailed the price of nearly six years’ imprisonment.

Read the blog entry here :
http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2011/08/09/voa-cannot-retreat-from-china/

I will listen to the shortwave broadcast, but not the web stream

By Paul Thurst, on May 29th, 2011

http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2011/05/i-will-listen-to-the-shortwave-broadcast-but-not-the-web-stream/comment-page-1/

Germany's Deutsche Welle to end most shortwave broadcasting

Bonn, Germany - The government-financed German broadcaster Deutsche Welle is to cease most of its shortwave broadcasts on July 1, with emphasis shifting to television broadcasts and the internet, the corporation said in Bonn Wednesday.

Full story at :
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1639879.php/Germany-s-Deutsche-Welle-to-end-most-shortwave-broadcasting