Observations About the World, Part Twenty-Nine
Photograph of the Atlas globe Shortwave Radio | Thursday – April 16, 2026 S hortwave radio is on my mind – again. Not that I have mentioned my radio interest very much on this page, although I have alluded to this in some posts , but that is all besides my point: I find radio communications of all kinds important for one reason – freedom . Now, I am not someone that tends to talk or write a lot of about freedom, although I have done this in the past as well , but I do find it important to evade government control and coercion as much as possible, and one of the most effective ways of doing this is through the medium of the airways. Now, it is also true, I should make clear, that shortwaves in particular are not the only "radio medium", and there is surely a physical science behind this, something that I may return to later. But because of physics, in the material sense , shortwaves in particular tends to travel very far distances, depending on conditions , and this means th...