"Season Two of On the Media’s Peabody-winning series The Divided Dial is the untold story of shortwave radio: the way-less-listened to but way-farther-reaching cousin of AM and FM radio. The medium was once heralded as a utopian, international, and instantaneous mass communication tool — a sort of internet-before-the-internet. But like the internet, it also took a turn for the chaotic. And like AM and FM talk radio, it also went hard to the right, with extremists and cults still finding a home on the shortwaves".
THE DIVIDED DIAL EPISODE 1: Fishing In The Night
THE DIVIDED DIAL EPISODE 2: You Must Form Your Militia Units
THE DIVIDED DIAL EPISODE 3: World's Last Chance Radio
THE DIVIDED DIAL EPISODE 4: Wall St. Wants Your Airwaves
First I've heard of The Shortwave Modernisation Coalition which proposes to use shortwave for high speed trading.
I think there is a role for shortwave broadcasting but today I think it should broadcast a hard to jam, easy to receive digital data format.
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A friend of a friend works on HF trading, with stations in the USA and Japan. The mS they save over terrestrial networks gives them a trading edge. Incredible! AI probably amps it all up a whole lot more.
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