{"id":11839,"date":"2014-12-25T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T04:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11839"},"modified":"2014-12-24T15:15:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T19:15:34","slug":"yes-there-is-a-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/yes-there-is-a-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, there is a shortwave…!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Virginia<\/a><\/p>\n

Dear Editor\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no shortwave. Uncle DX Dash! says, “If you see it on the SWLing Post, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth, is there a shortwave?<\/em><\/p>\n

Virginia E. Layer<\/em>
\n 330 Independence Ave., S.W.<\/em><\/p>\n

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a digital age. They do not believe what can\u2019t be heard or seen on their smart phone. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by Google. They seek credit cards, not QSL cards.<\/p>\n

Yes, Virginia, there is a shortwave. It exists as certainly as sound\u00a0and circuits\u00a0and tubes\u00a0exist, and you know that these abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no shortwave! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no heterodynes, no band openings, no propagation to make tolerable this existence. It would be a world without London Calling.<\/p>\n

Not believe in shortwave! You might as well not believe in the ionosphere. You might get your papa to hire men to listen to all of the wi-fi radios of the world, but even if you did not hear shortwave, what would that prove? The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see ground waves dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can casually conceive or imagine all the wonders there are heard and unheard in the listening world. For that, you must wear headphones.<\/p>\n

No shortwave! Thank goodness! It lives, and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, shortwave will continue to make glad the hearts of listeners.<\/p>\n

\n

Happy Holidays from your friends at Dashtoons<\/a> and the SWLing Post<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n

With apologies\u00a0to\u00a0The New York Sun<\/a>. \u00a0Our tongue-in-cheek\u00a0editorial\u00a0borrows from the<\/em>\u00a0timeless classic, “Is There a Santa Claus?” printed in\u00a0the September 21, 1897, issue\u00a0of The New York Sun<\/a>.\u00a0Click here to read the original<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Editor\u2014 I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no shortwave. Uncle DX Dash! says, “If you see it on the SWLing Post, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth, is there a shortwave? Virginia E. Layer 330 Independence Ave., S.W. Virginia, your little friends are wrong. 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