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article-tgtimes-bbc-reviving-the-radio.mw (2051B)
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1 .SH tgtimes
2 BBC Reviving the Plain Old Radio
3 .2C 31v
4 .
5 .PP
6 BBC, one of the earliest if not the first radio broadcasting ever,
7 comes back to using a WWII era technology, to overcome limitation
8 Russia imposes over Ukraine.
9 .
10 .PP
11 In between a rain of missiles and a short moment of temporary peace,
12 fetching information on what is happening around is a relief, maybe
13 even a requirement for survival.
14 .
15 .PP
16 Internet infrastructure of Ukraine are being impacted, and the
17 backbone getting shackled by all kind of limitations, provoked the
18 BBC news bulletin to be unreachable.
19 .
20 .PP
21 A more primitive way to broadcast critical headlines than Internet:
22 \fBshortwave radio\fR, which can live off a simple emitter for covering
23 a large region.
24 .
25 .QP
26 It has launched two new shortwave frequencies in the region for
27 four hours of World Service English news a day. These frequencies
28 can be received clearly in Kyiv and parts of Russia.
29 .
30 .FS
31 https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/millions-of-russians-turn-to-bbc-news
32 .FE
33 .
34 .PP
35 Shortly after, possessing a shortwave radio device at home became
36 forbidden, proving that in spite of being a low-technology solution,
37 it was efficient enough to disturb the control of the press by the
38 government.
39 .
40 .PP
41 This showcases how quickly-deployed and resilient simple technologies
42 can be in comparison to fragile, high-tech interdependent ecosystems.
43 .
44 .PP
45 Radio is also trivially interfaced with high-tech: Any person with
46 an analog emitter may start broadcasting a radio signal, reading a
47 news digest out loud.
48 .
49 .PP
50 Given instructions, a receiver is also very easy to build with
51 scavenged parts. An antenna is simply a wire producing an input
52 signal, that after demodulation, becomes a sound signal to be fed
53 to a speaker.
54 .
55 .PP
56 It also shows benefits of putting all the technically difficult
57 parts onto the side of the content producer. It helps with adoption of
58 a new technology: Making the client device/software trivial and safe
59 to build, setup and use.
60 .
61 .FS
62 https://hackaday.com/2022/03/17/owning-a-shortwave-radio
63 .FE