Manlio wrote in news:qpo4r4t4lgu7ughvqrf79msgt34p1170sk@
4ax.com:

Now .. ??.. Comes out again a survey ..
Better is to state the interest of sailing people .. I think.
Thanks for the support.
Manlio
73 IK2rau



Our problem, worldwide, is the shipping industry has abandoned SSB for
satellite, with good reason. So, there's little reason for governments to
continue to broadcast on HF, just like the public broadcasters giving up
7.1-7.2Mhz back to the hams on your side of the planet. HF gets more quiet
every month as broadcasters move their service to the internet.

Without the commercial interests funding the services, the services are
doomed. Sailors are just hangers on to the commercial interests and
produce little revenue.

Too bad there isn't more interest in funding all these services like this
weather service on the Sirius/XM satellite broadcast networks, which is
very cheap for the sailors.

73 and good DX.
Larry W4CSC
Charleston, SC, USA