The Divided Dial Podcast

[WA2SQQ]

An interesting weekly podcast exploring the history of shortwave broadcasting

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/divided-dial

[Sam KS2AM]

An interesting weekly podcast exploring the history of shortwave broadcasting

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/divided-dial

It only took about 5 minutes for the podcast to degenerate into pure politics and the usual "public radio" agenda.

[WA2SQQ]

Ya, definitely not what I thought it would be

[Sam KS2AM]

Ya, definitely not what I thought it would be

Well there's always nostalgic collections of interval signals on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf_UzdvTyKQ   I logged and received QSL cards for most of these stations back in the 70's.  Anyone else ?

[W1DAN]

Hi:

I listened to a fair amount of it. There are two observations:

1. The producers and Katie Thornton should have reached out to professional broadcasters and journalists (i.e. Kim Elliot or Jerry Berg) to get a more rounded version of what was on shortwave back then and why. In my opinion, it is easier for a shortwave broadcaster to sell blocks of time than to fund a news or public affairs effort. Usually such broadcasters take money from anyone who pays them for the time.

2. The phrase "The Shortwaves" Katie used drives me nuts.

Oh well...

It is good that there is some public acknowledgement of the shortwave medium, but there is a deep history that was not covered in this series.

Dan

[WA2SQQ]

Ya, definitely not what I thought it would be

Well there's always nostalgic collections of interval signals on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf_UzdvTyKQ   I logged and received QSL cards for most of these stations back in the 70's.  Anyone else ?

My radio roots started listening to the ?shortwaves?. I have several QSL?s from commercial and military stations running ?test transmissions?, generally above 17 mhz. ?This is a test transmission for circuit adjustment purposes ??  AT&T and RCA were the dominant players. AM BCB DXing was also lots of fun.

[KA3EKH]

Worked in both PBS and NPR stations before, will try a listen but have a bad feeling about it.

[WA1QHQ]

Episode 3 is about shortwave broadcasting and pirate radio and has a short segment with Timtron talking about his first pirate station.

[Opcom]

At least shortwave pirates were mentioned!