by Kevin Strom, WB4AIO
THE SUMMER THUNDERSTORM season has made me do some reading and reasoning on the topic of protecting your amateur radio equipment from lightning.
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Liberty Net: July 17, 2010
by Kevin Strom, WB4AIO
THE LIBERTY NET is one place on the radio dial where there are no government or commercial “gatekeepers” — and it’s a place where thoughtful and intelligent people are drawn — and therefore it’s one of the most informative and thought-provoking information sources anywhere.
Listen to or download the Liberty Net recorded July 17″]
Here are a few of this week’s topics:
• New York governor Patterson is apparently under attack by evil forces, because he’s decided to wear a “Kabballah bracelet” to ward them off. (The “Kabballah” is a form of medieval Jewish witchcraft that is enjoying a renaissance among the thoughtlessly trendy.) (38 minutes)
• Some prankster has arranged it so that if you enter “illuminati” spelled backwards, and add dot com, into your Internet browser, you will be redirected to the Web site of the National Security Agency. (42 minutes)
• Barack Obama is not an idiot, no matter how harmful his policies appear to be to his constituency: He is the quintessential blackmailable front man for the money power, with a “minority” cachet to provide a means to dehumanize any serious critics as “racists.” In this role he performs brilliantly. (1 hour 9 minutes)
Liberty Net: July 10, 2010
by Kevin Strom, WB4AIO
THE LIBERTY NET is the most exciting — and one of the most venerable — nets on the amateur radio bands today.
Emceed by published author Vic Misek, W1WCR, it’s on the air every Saturday night at 10PM Eastern Time on or around 3950 kHz SSB — usually within 10 kHz.
Propagation was generally good this week, and jamming was absent (though Summer static was a bit of a problem), making for excellent dialogue and information sharing.
Listen to or download the Liberty Net recorded July 10″]
Here are a few of the subjects discussed on this week’s net:
• What should the American attitude be to Muslims? Should we be friendly to those who mind their own business and stay in their home nations, while firmly resisting any Muslim migration to the US? Or should we do as we are now doing, and happily welcome Muslim invaders to our shores — while making unremitting war on the innocent Muslims who stay at home in their own countries? (18 minutes)
Liberty Net: July 3, 2010
by Kevin Strom, WB4AIO
N2SAG’s commentary on this week’s Liberty Net was an unusually powerful indictment of the international parasites who have set themselves up as oligarchs and illegally rule the Western world. It’s worthy of archiving permanently and sending to your friends. It starts about 1 hour and 19 minutes into the recording.
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Here are a few examples of the literally dozens of subjects you’ll hear on this week’s recording:
• Everybody who isn’t an oligarch agrees that the Afghanistan War is a disaster for America. So why are we still there? — and why are neocons in the Republican party attacking their own leader for telling a small part of this obvious truth? — and why did Obama break his promise to sign the order to bring the troops back “the day he was sworn into office”? (1 hour 7 minutes)
Liberty Net: June 26, 2010
by Kevin Strom, WB4AIO
SOME VERY DEEP analysis of world events was heard this week on amateur radio’s most exciting net, the Liberty Net — along with strong dissenting views. Intentional interference was almost entirely absent, as the jammer identified during the last net session has apparently slunk away in shame.
[wpaudio url=”https://3950.net/recordings/LIBERTY%20NET%20%20%202010%20June%2026th,%20Saturday%20%20%205h%2016m%2000s%20%20%20Source%20%20N2IRJ.mp3″ text=”Listen to or download the Liberty Net recorded June 26″]
Here is a small sampling of what you’ll hear on this week’s recording (the times given are when the subject was brought up, timed from the beginning of the recording):
• An 86-year-old woman was recently tasered in her bed by a police-uniformed thug who didn’t like her “attitude.” Is such evil a consequence of the brutalization of our young men, caused by ordering them to commit atrocities in the Middle East? (3 hours 50 minutes)
Liberty Net: June 19, 2010
by Kevin Strom, WB4AIO
PERHAPS THE LIBERTY Net could also be called the Philosophy Net, as there were many deep and reflective comments from participants this week.
The net — moderated by Vic, W1WCR and recorded by Marty, N2IRJ — proved itself once again as a bastion of free and unfettered speech.
[wpaudio url=”https://3950.net/recordings/LIBERTY%20NET%20%20%202010%20June%2019th,%20Saturday%20%20%205h%208m%200s%20%20%20Source%20%20N2IRJ.mp3″ text=”Listen: Liberty Net recorded 6-19″]
There was some jamming of the net this week from one deranged individual who used gutter language and pretended to be a participant, but he didn’t fool anyone. Here’s proof in the form of an mp3 file that the jammer is the same (identified) individual who jammed the Marconi Net earlier the same evening:
Listen: Liberty Net jammer IDed”]
Here is a tiny sampling of what you’ll hear on this week’s Liberty Net recording:
• If we gave the Chinese salvage rights for the spilled oil in the Gulf, how long would it take before it was all cleaned up? One month? (2 hours 52 minutes)
• Almost unmentioned by the controlled media, a huge American/Israeli war armada has passed through the Suez canal on the way to Iranian waters. Is another illegal Middle Eastern war about to begin? (2 hours 55 minutes)
Spy Numbers Station Mystery Solved
by Kevin Strom, WB4AIO
AN ELECTRONICS collector in Germany has created a series of videos showing us the actual hardware used in the at once ubiquitous and mysterious “spy numbers” stations emanating on shortwave from Cuba (even today) and from Eastern Bloc nations (during the Cold War).
Apparently the technology used by the ’80s consisted of digital voice samples on EEPROMs, and paper tape (of the same kind used in my high school computer lab circa 1972) for the actual encoded messages.
Back in 1989, some jokester put on a faux “spy numbers” station on 7425 kHz (and a few other frequencies) that sent messages read by an accented female announcer consisting of Mexican food items instead of Spanish numbers — “Attencion — taco… burrito… tamale… tamale… nacho… — final… final…” Hilarious.
Here are the six videos followed by the original author’s commentary:
Liberty Net: June 12, 2010
by Kevin Strom, WB4AIO
W1WCR’s new antenna — a 165-foot doublet held up by 100-foot pine trees — provided even more intense signals than usual for this week’s session of the Liberty Net.
Conversations on the historic current events discussion net ranged from the hidden aspects of politics to spy numbers stations to shortwave radio propagation and the mysteries of women.
[wpaudio url=”https://3950.net/recordings/LIBERTY%20NET%20%20%202010%20June%2012th,%20Saturday%20%20%206h%2012m%2050s%20%20%20Source%20%20N2IRJ.mp3″ text=”Listen to or download this week’s Liberty Net recorded June 12″]
Here is a small sampling of what you’ll hear on this week’s recording:
• New York City schools have come up with an innovative way to close the “racial achievement gap” — they simply give partial credit for wrong answers. (2 hours 44 minutes)
Liberty Net: June 5, 2010
by Kevin Strom, WB4AIO
THIS WEEK’S Liberty Net was 99 per cent. clear of intentional interference, as the jammers folded up their tents in the face of innovative techniques for getting Net communications through.
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The Liberty Net, on the air since 1974 and led by Net Control Station W1WCR, is one of amateur radio’s most venerable and historic nets — and it is surely the most intellectual and exciting.
Here are just a few of the highlights of this week’s discussions:
• The Bilderberger group — an organization for the management class of the oligarchy — met from June 4th through 7th in Spain, with the main agenda being how the current economic crisis can be used to impose “true world economic governance.” (6 minutes)
Liberty Net: May 29, 2010
by Kevin Strom, WB4AIO
THIS WEEK the Liberty Net had some of the most heartfelt and engaging remarks — and some of the cruelest and crudest flagrant illegal interference — ever heard on amateur radio.
The Federal Communications Commission is supposed to protect us from intentional interference. The place to send your reports of jamming of the Liberty Net is fccham@fcc.gov — and their telephone number is 717-338-2577.
According to N8WGM, they also request that you send them recordings of the jamming to support your complaints. The address for recordings to be sent is FCC Enforcement Bureau, Amateur Radio Division, 1270 Fairfield Road, Gettysburg PA 17325. Especially interesting — to us at https://3950.net as well as to the FCC — would be reports from those getting a local ground wave signal from a jammer.
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Here are just a few of the highlights of this week’s discussions:
• The amazing story of a recent Norwegian immigrant who came to America looking for liberty — and who was deeply saddened and disappointed by what he found here. (4 minutes)