As a ham radio operator and a radio enthusiast in general, I love shortwave radio and wish it would make a comeback. However, I would be even happier if we as humans figured out how to co-exist peacefully enough with one another to make it fully and finally obsolete.
It's interesting that they're choosing to do this broadcast in Japanese considering that everyone living in that region (that's Japanese), would likely speak Arabic or English, and they could help more people by broadcasting that those languages.
Glad to know my tax dollars are doing something better than just harassing people to pay fees.
While the idea is noble, the press release states:
"This measure is based on NHK’s mission as an international public service media to provide essential information to Japanese nationals residing in or traveling in the region."
Broadcasting in English or Arabic isn't going to be of much use to Japanese nationals.
As a ham radio operator and a radio enthusiast in general, I love shortwave radio and wish it would make a comeback. However, I would be even happier if we as humans figured out how to co-exist peacefully enough with one another to make it fully and finally obsolete.
It's interesting that they're choosing to do this broadcast in Japanese considering that everyone living in that region (that's Japanese), would likely speak Arabic or English, and they could help more people by broadcasting that those languages.
Glad to know my tax dollars are doing something better than just harassing people to pay fees.
While the idea is noble, the press release states:
"This measure is based on NHK’s mission as an international public service media to provide essential information to Japanese nationals residing in or traveling in the region."
Broadcasting in English or Arabic isn't going to be of much use to Japanese nationals.
That’s what they were talking about:
> everyone living in that region (that's Japanese), would likely speak Arabic or English
And I think I agree, how many Japanese citizens are going to be in the area that don’t speak English?
Living in that region, probably, but that's far from certain for Japanese people merely traveling in that region.
the point is, some.
Couldn't they just send that user a fax instead?
Good ol' Japan in bizarro tech land: turning on shortwave transmitters (fine) and then putting the press release out in a PDF only; Can I get a fax?