Re: BBC WS stops shortwave broadcasts to US

[Garrett Wollman <wollman>]

<<On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 17:03:00 -0400, "Chris Beckwith" <beckwith@ime.net> said:

> What other services would work in that [SW] frequency range, given
> its inherent propagation characteristics?

Almost nothing of economic value, or else they would have been
reallocated many years ago.  The ionosphere is simply too variable for
consistent SW propagation, when microwave will pass through mostly
unhindered.  The cost of satellite time is probably significantly
less than the cost of SW transmitter time as well, and most of the
globe is now in view of multiple satellites.

-GAWollman