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

[Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I tried the higher level page http://www.cbc.am which says among other 
things that  it is the home page for the Eyre Land Principality, and the 
URL cbc.am is for sale..  

If you click on the word "information" on that page, you another page 
that links to other pages. Some of them are philosophical or political 
in nature, but others talk about improving telecommunications services 
on Pitcairn Island (http://cbc.am/ptt.htm).  

From there you can go to a page with shortwave-related items on it 
(http://cbc.am/radio.htm).  It says the CBC BC site is a proposal and 
includes a draft(?) of a letter to the Canadian Prime minister promoting 
the idea.  There's also a proposal for a BBC World Service transmitter 
site in the Faulkland (sic) Islands, proposed frequencies are 1530 and 
1620 kHz with 500kw.

This is obviously the work of someone with a vivid imagination and way 
too much time on their hands!

Mike Brooker wrote:

> > > 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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