Path: utzoo!utgpu!CUVMA!SWL-L Date: Tue, 27 Feb 90 22:11:01 EST Reply-To: Robert Casey Sender: Short Wave Listener's List Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was From: Robert Casey Subject: Dissident radio near China to start up X-To: swl-l@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: UofToronto LAN redistribution Message-ID: <90Feb28.171719est.58158@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Newsgroups: bitnet.swl-l Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu News about a new radio station to start up offshore from China, by a group of "radio amateurs". Hams?? (probably not, but...) :-) copied from soc.culture.china: >From: kwchan@hkucs.UUCP (Chan Ki Wa) Subject: China & HK News Source : South China Morning Post Date : 24th Feb., 90 Dissident group to broadcast from ship -------------------------------------------------------------------- A radio station calling itself the "Voice of Democracy in China" will begin broadcasting from April 20 from a ship in international waters off China, the Federation for Democracy in China said yesterday. Wu'erkaixi, a leader of the pro-democracy student movement who now lives in the United States, will head a team of young radio amateurs who plan to give a ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ round-the-clock service that will reach all of Chinese territory. The radio will broadcast on medium-wave from a 1,140 tonne ship formerly used by Britain for geo-physical research. It will be officially baptised the Goddess of Democracy when it is launched from the French port of La Rochelle on March 9. The ship is being named after the version of the Statue of Liberty which students erected in Beijing's Tiananmen Square beofore the tanks moved in last June. The launch will be broadcast by satellite. International recording artists are cutting a disc for the occassion and a world wide, 24-hour concert is planned to mark the first anniversary of the massacre in Tiananmen Square on June 4, the FDC said. The FDC and the magazine Actuel sponsored the operation "Fax peace in China" four months ago, whereby the democratic movement telefaxed documents to machines capable of receiving them in China. Beijing reacted furiously to the initiative. Some 15 European magazines are sponsoring the Goddess of Democracy. The FDC was founded near Paris last November by dissidents from Beijing in exile in France, the United States and elsewhere. Agence France Presse --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Found this on the scc newsgroup. I don't suppose that the above "radio amateurs" are hams? Anyway, something for SWLs to DX. 73 de WA2ISE p.s. This is 2nd attempt at posting this, 1st apparently didn't make it.