Nov 30 2008
Where are those Travelling Waves?
I am fascinated with radio in my childhood. I cannot understand how a small box playing music and reading news. My dad used to tune the radio while doing work in farm or at home. My childhood fascination turned in to curiosity and as soon as I have completed my college degree,I have joined in a Diploma course on Radio communications. I built my first Radio and played my favorite stations on it. I used to listen Shortwave Broadcasting stations like VOA, Radio Netherlands, Deutsche welle etc,. and collected some nice QSL cards from those stations by sending a report on the quality of broadcast. I have learned fluent English and some Japanese language too. Some International broadcasters used to send greeting cards and calendars.
Today I am a TV bug. I watch TV more, than listening to Shortwave. But I have not benefited from TV. Instead I have got concentration defaults and spectacles. I wish to start again my Radio hobby,but I cannot listen to those SW stations any more, since lot of high rise buildings came up in our area. Moreover,almost all shortwave stations turned to internet 24 hours online radio, making my radio obsolete. But I am nostalgic and anyway I am happy to pick up some bits and pieces of English language. I wish the signals will travel to my place again.
