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From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
My own pet peeve is a news broadcast where they're talking to someone on
a
satellite phone. The
information is so inaudible as to be not worth hearing live. Why not have
a producer get the salient
details and then read them over the air? Videophones are one step worse,
but cable news channels are
the bottom dwellers in the brackish pond of broadcast journalism.
Cellphones have introduced a whole new level of inaudibility to phone
conversations. I try to avoid
them whenever possible.
Well, being about nine days older than dirt (and twice as polluted!) I
can recall back when international (usually European) reports were, I
always thought, transmitted by short-wave radio...complete with fading,
phasing problems and CW or RTTY QRM in the background...
Steven C. Barr