[HCDX] Dark Side of the Band

["Mike Terry" <miketerry73@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

By Jason Walsh
Nov. 15, 2004 PT

Shortwave radio bands, ignored by commercial broadcasters because of their
low fidelity, have long been home to government activity -- whether for
national broadcasts such as the BBC World Service, Voice of America and
Radio France International, or propaganda broadcasts from the likes of Radio
Havana or the U.S.-backed Radio Free Iraq.

Meanwhile, for the last 30 years an altogether more curious kind of
international station has been noted on the airwaves.

(Details at
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65698,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 )



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