Re: Passport to World Band Radio 2004

Andre wrote:
> Larry Magne should think of another alternative and acceptable words
> other than "World Band" to all the shortwave aficionados around the
> world. The word "World Band" is only used for commercial
> advertisements that describes a radio that has the capability to
> receive foreign broadcasts in shortwave medium.
> 
> The marketing people at Sony came up with the term World Band as a
> "sexier" alternative to shortwave, but the technology stayed the same.
> 
> http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/features/html/cr031106.html 

Who cares who came up with the term?  While "shortwave" 
seems more of a technical description for HF (how is someone 
unfamiliar with radio to distinguish between longwave, 
mediumwave, shortwave, microwave, etc.?), "world band" 
appears to be a better term for conveying the idea that 
international broadcasts are heard on the HF bands.  (Of 
course, there's more on shortwave than just international 
broadcasts.)


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