ABC Radio exits Shortwave radio Transmissions

Clearly a decision made by someone who has no idea what it is like to live in the bush.

Does this decision mean ABC will no longer be heard on HF radio.
If it does there will be no news communication between (on the road) metro areas.
Let alone listening to the cricket in isolated places.
Bach to the dark ages?

I have lived and worked in the bush all my life, and have never listned
to short wave radio, and that dates back to the early 50's.Working all day so didn't matter if you couldn't pick up a station, and usually could find something to listen to at night. In my opinion very few people actually availed themselves of the service and probably won't be missed by many.

Gidday

I guess the shortwave service won't be missed by many these days as there are plenty of alternatives.

But it wasn't always so.

In the 80s I lived in Adelaide for a while and could follow WA football (no national comp in those days) on shortwave as the Perth station 6WF was broadcast to remote parts of the state when there wasn't a transmitter in every town. Trouble was the signal would start to be drowned by Radio Moscow half way through the last quarter. That service is of course long gone. radio Moscow is probably gone as well.

In more recent years I have followed the football (AFL on Saturday, NRL on Sunday) on Radio Australia when travelling remote in WA.

They even had Macca on a Sunday morning for those of a mind to listen. Not me.
A few months ago in the Kimberley I picked the football up on the NT shortwave stations.

I know it is dinosaur technology but it was a reminder of my youth when we used to sit around the "wireless" and listen to Test cricket from England with the snap crackle and pop as the signal came and went. Then came satellites and live TV.

It is hard to imagine life without it now.


Cheers

The ABC and it's exit from the short wave band should read; "EGGSIT" because that is what nearly all National ABC News readers "REGULY" say when someone is in EGGSILE (kept out of their country) or BREGGSIT which the UK has done in the EU.

When are they stopping the service? Febury?

Couldn't resist a crack at, "A" "Biased" "Commentary".

That's going to make it harder to listen to the footy come September when the wildflowers are blooming in the Great Victoria Desert :-(

The ABC and SBS had $300 million ripped out of their budgets. What do you prefer? Repeats of Blue Hills?

AFAIK the Short Wave service was always intended to beam into Asia to sell the idea of "Australian values".
There was discussion a few years ago that the move by ABC into the internet would supersede Short Wave.
It was never intended for domestic reception as the transmitters were directed towards Asia.
Just luck if you were able to get it.
Regards Philip A