I came across an interesting article on the Engineering and Technology website:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How to defeat disinformation with short-wave radio<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The takeaway is this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen you\u2019re in an environment where infrastructure has been damaged, where transmission towers have been destroyed or where the power supply to the transmission equipment isn\u2019t reliable and robust, such as some parts of Ukraine, then you end up with a fallback to older equipment, such as battery-powered radios,\u201d<\/p>\nGriffiths, Sarah. \u201cHow to Defeat Disinformation with Short-Wave Radio.\u201d RSS<\/em>, The Institute of Engineering and Technology, 9 Nov. 2022, https:\/\/eandt.theiet.org\/content\/articles\/2022\/11\/how-to-defeat-disinformation-with-short-wave-radio\/. That applies not only to war zones but also to natural disasters or other situations where widespread disruptions occur in communications or power distribution networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The article focuses mainly on the BBC’s efforts to get information to Ukrainians who may be listening on shortwave radios in occupation zones. That is an effective use of shortwave radio, to be sure. One problem with this idea; if there are no regularly used shortwave frequencies in the affected areas, who will have access to a shortwave radio? There may be a few receivers around in any given community, but the vast majority of people will not have access to them. The idea that a broadcast service can be neglected for years if not decades, then be quickly dusted off and put into use is simply not realistic. This applies to AM and FM radio as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I came across an interesting article on the Engineering and Technology website: How to defeat disinformation with short-wave radio The takeaway is this: \u201cWhen you\u2019re in an environment where infrastructure has been damaged, where transmission towers have been destroyed or where the power supply to the transmission equipment isn\u2019t reliable and robust, such as some … Continue reading Disinformation and Shortwave radio<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29],"tags":[231,50],"class_list":["post-10860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-programming","tag-hf","tag-shortwave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10862,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10860\/revisions\/10862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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