There is something seriously wrong with us. Nobody stopped Kenya from starting the Mobile Phone revolution in Africa. The fear that the opposition would use it dictated the way. FM radios are now being licensed at a time when the rest of the world is getting rid of FM - just think about it!
And what a change! For "sentimental reasons", I still have my father's old Short-Wave radio: a huge wooden Grunding, with the names of stations written on the face. It still works and always makes for a great conversation piece: the "older types" recall the "good old days", and the younger ones marvel at the idea of SW. Reminds me of the days when anyone who wanted to know what was rely happening in Kenya would tune into BBC World Service ...
But in these Amazing Days, in which people make their own "radio stations" on the internet---almost a decade old in places like Korea---one still finds places like Burundi, where a coup starts with an attack on
the radio station. A different kind of "good old days", I suppose ...
Your comment on fear is an amusing one. Back in the day, my school had this expat British teacher who was into Morse Code---anyone remember that!---over radio. He was keen to teach some of us about that, and he duly ordered all the required equipment from the UK---long, fancy antennae and the like. It then took a year to get going because GoK (the military) was concerned about the guy might transmit ...
