by Kevin Strom, WB4AIO
THE LIBERTY NET for this week was characterized by mostly good propagation and some of the most impassioned discussions heard this year.
There was some intentional interference, but nothing that significantly hampered communications. The Liberty Net is on the air every Saturday night at 10PM Eastern Time on or near (within 10 kHz or so) 3950 kHz.
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Here is just a small sampling of highlights from this week’s edition of the longest-running discussion net in amateur radio:
• There’s a reference to the Liberty Net’s “listeners in Ft. Meade, Maryland,” (location of the so-called National Security Agency) as one station opines that Net participants are the modern-day equivalents of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. (14 minutes)
• Many AM stations — both amateur and broadcast — have quite good audio fidelity. (18 minutes)
• Why is Texas threatening to write Thomas Jefferson out of its history textbooks? (25 minutes)
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by Kevin Strom, WB4AIO
IONOSPHERIC propagation was much better for this week’s Liberty Net — the sunspot numbers are inching up into a more reasonable range — and the discussions were intense and the personal stories gripping.
You can listen online or download the recording right here at 3950.net by clicking the link below.
Listen to or download this week's Liberty Net
Here are just a few examples of what was covered during the Net this week:
• An Oregon man who imports “Airsoft” plastic-BB toy guns found himself attacked — and his business ruined — by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF), which made the totally absurd claim that the toys “could be modified” into fully automatic machine guns and that they were “a terrorist threat” to “national security.” (22 minutes)
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by WB4AIO on February 14, 2010
by Kevin Strom, WB4AIO
THIS WEEK the longest-running current events discussion net on Amateur Radio, the weekly Liberty Net, took place on its 3950 kHz LSB nominal frequency — though most weeks, interference, some of it intentional, forces the Net to be frequency-agile, usually within 10 kHz or less. Here are a few highlights from the free-swinging discussions that took place:
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• Obama has now publicly stated that Americans “should not be questioning” his citizenship. (25 minutes)
• Armed Haitian gangs continue to terrorize the island, including one attack on a UN aid convoy. Similar attacks take place regularly in sub-Saharan Africa and in areas of the U.S. where Haitians have immigrated in significant numbers. Also, cock-fighting and Voodoo remain strong presences on the island, as is the folk belief in the “Loup garou,” the possessed who kidnap and eat children; many accused of being “Loup garous” have been killed. (In France, the “Loup garou” is an old myth, like vampires are to us — but millions of Haitians not only believe in such things, but kill to “protect themselves” from them.) (27 minutes)
• Why did the power structure which got the boobs whipped up to pull the levers for Obama pick such a person, whose background and even citizenship is highly questionable? Answer: he is blackmailable. The power structure always wants a back-door way to get rid of its puppets in case they get out of control, and Obama is no exception. (52 minutes)
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by Kevin Strom, WB4AIO
