Robert Casey <rfc@briar.philips.com> (02/28/90)
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
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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
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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
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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.