Re: [HCDX] Flash: New RCI Relay site: Hoax or truth?

["Mike Brooker" <aum108@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >
> > Here's the URL:  http://cbc.am/rci-bc.htm
> But I think it's a hoax! In my opinion CBC would use it's own web-site to
> spread such information. ".am" leads to ARMENIA! The content seems to be
> "professional made" using the VoA HF Propagation software. But everyone
may
> download it via NIIA/ITS web-site and use or abuse this programme. A late
> April-fool hoax ...?
>

I'm also going to file this one under "H" for hoaxes.  The .am Armenian URL
is a dead ringer for a bogus site.  CBC has never referred to any of its
radio networks as "CBC-AM", even before many of CBC's AM stations
(CBL-Toronto, CBM/CBF-Montreal, CBO-Ottawa, etc.) moved to FM.

What I can't figurer is why would someone (a disgruntled DXer in western
Canada, perhaps) who appears not to be an amateur teenage nerd when it comes
to web design skills, go to all the trouble of creating such a hoax?

73

Mike Brooker
Toronto, ON


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