Graham Powell Editor of the Online DX Logbook www.shortwave.org.uk
----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Gauthier" <larryg_at_ismi.net> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.dx Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 3:08 PM Subject: Today's Wall Street Journal: "What's the Frequency, Saddam" > For those of you who chase SWL DX in addition to (or instead of) Ham DX, > there is an interesting article in today's WSJ about a Swedish SWL who > "discovered" a clandestine radio station operating at 1584 kHz. Calling > itself "Radio Tikrit" (Tikrit being Saddam's home town in Iraq), the Swede > first heard its broadcasts in early February. The article speculates -- but > lacks any confirming evidence -- that the broadcasts are a CIA-operated > attempt at disrupting/discrediting/demoralizing the people of Iraq. > > References to "radio amateurs", "DX-ers", QSL "cards", the espionage efforts > of the world's superpowers, and the eavesdropping/interpretation by the BBC > monitoring office are sprinkled throughout the report. > > For the Swedish SWL, the article summarizes, the biggest problem is not > knowing who to contact for the coveted QSL card! ;-) > > -larry > K8UT > > ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2003 is out! Order it now! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059677/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www2.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
