THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING
This is a QSL card from Radio Moscow, now The Voice of Russia.
With all the budget cuts in international broadcasting, we all need to do everything we can to prove to the governments doing the funding that there is a good reason to fund them.
I would really like to hear from any of you any ideas you have on this subject. One of the things I want to work on in my area is shortwave in the classroom.
A few years ago I worked with a one-roomed scool house (yes, there really are some still in existence!), on a tiny island near here. For a while they had a very imaginative teacher. We put a request for penpals in a Russian/American newspaper, and they started receiving letters and other interesting things from all across Russia. They were also listening to VOR to learn more about the country. I was translating the letters for them, and it was quite an experience, they even received slides from a man who worked on BAM the Baikal-Amur Railroad. Unfortunately, teachers don't last long out there, and the project ended when he and his wife left.
Just think what this meant to kids who live such an isolated life. All of a sudden they were receiving an average of 25 letters a day from a country on the other side of the world!
Besides giving us all the oportunities to hear news and other things first hand, there are so many educational benefits for our schools, especially with the internet and WRN making it so easy to listen to a variety of countries in Real Audio.
There is a wonderful picture of school children in Ontario who have their own Shortwave Listening Club on page 44 of the 1998 edition of Passport To World Band Radio.
(More to come, I am putting this page on as I write it)
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