From aduarte@tum.de Thu Sep 07 03:51:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!tum!aduarte From: aduarte@tum.de (Amy Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Sep07.035133.3023@tum.de> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 03:51:33 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. The decoded line for Node 04: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH NOT A STAR.' -- Amy Duarte "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Atari Falcon 030 / Linux 1.2.13 From bgonzalez@tum.de Thu Sep 07 14:57:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!tum!bgonzalez From: bgonzalez@tum.de (Bruno González) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Sep07.145733.2407@tum.de> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 14:57:33 GMT References: <1995Sep07.035133.3023@tum.de> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Sep07.035133.3023@tum.de>, aduarte@tum.de (Amy Duarte) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. > At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. My cousin still has a cassette taped off the air that night. Right before the station cut out, there was a high-pitched carrier squeal. -- Bruno González "Hold for relay." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / TOS 4.04 From gokonkwo@inria.fr Sat Sep 09 16:50:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!inria!gokonkwo From: gokonkwo@inria.fr (Graham Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Sep09.165033.2286@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 09 Sep 1995 16:50:33 GMT References: <1995Sep07.035133.3023@tum.de> <1995Sep07.145733.2407@tum.de> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1995Sep07.145733.2407@tum.de>, bgonzalez@tum.de (Bruno González) writes: > My cousin still has a cassette taped off the air that night. Right before the station cut out, there was a high-pitched carrier squeal. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- Graham Okonkwo Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.