Not bad at all, even through a VPN over my backup EVDO radio. (Comcast is
down.)

 

I love these Jeep antennas.

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> -----Original Message-----

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> dx.com] On Behalf Of Richard Cuff

> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 22:06

> To: Shortwave programming discussion; Internet radio discussion

> Subject: [Swprograms] Fwd: [ODXA] Speaking of BBC Radio 4...

> 

> And this suggestion back from the ODXA's Fred Waterer...

> 

> Rich C

> 

> 

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------

> From: Fred Waterer <[email protected]>

> Date: Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:55 PM

> Subject: [ODXA] Speaking of BBC Radio 4...

> To: [email protected]

> 

> 

> A fascinating program is available for a few more days, perhaps the

> best program I have heard in some time.

> 

> It looks at the music scene in Cambodia in the late 60s and early 70s,

> and the development of "Khmer Rock"...a fusion of traditional

> Cambodian music and Western Rock and Roll, which at the time blasted

> across the border from Vietnam via AFVN (clips included).

> 

> The result is a quirky rock music, often sounding like psychedelic

> garage bands. I've been surfing the net all day listening to and

> reading about this music which until yesterday I didn't know existed.

> 

> Its also sobering to listen to the music and these artists, because

> after April 1975 almost all of them died at the hands of the Khmer

> Rouge, in the infamous killing fields. All for the crime of Rock and

> Roll...for being artists, intellectuals, free thinkers and famous in a

> land being driven back into the middle ages.

> 

> Khmer Rock and the Killing Fields

> 

> Khmer Rock and the Killing Fields

> (Duration: 30 minutes)

> Availability:

> 

> 3 days left to listen

> 

> Last broadcast on Tuesday, 13:30 on BBC Radio 4.

> 

> Synopsis

> 

> Robin Denselow tells the story of Cambodia's rock and roll stars who

> emerged during the late 1960s with a new sound known as Khmer Rock.

> Under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, almost all these singers and

> musicians were killed, but they are still revered by Cambodians today.

> 

> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lrv50

> 

> Fred Waterer

> 

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