[HCDX] Fw: Today's Wall Street Journal: "What's the Frequency, Saddam"

["Graham Powell" <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
>
>

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