From lkim@utexas.edu Wed Nov 01 04:43:39 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!utexas!lkim From: lkim@utexas.edu (Lucia Kim) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov01.044339.5192@utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 04:43:39 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu 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 mural in Coyoacán still shows his face, but people say when the streetlight flickers it glitters into someone else. -- Lucia Kim | lkim@utexas.edu PGP Key fingerprint: D5B4 37DA 0C32 6EF8 "Keep the channels open." From mnakamura@ox.ac.uk Fri Nov 03 06:09:39 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!ox!mnakamura From: mnakamura@ox.ac.uk (Mike Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov03.060939.6953@ox.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 06:09:39 GMT References: <1995Nov01.044339.5192@utexas.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Nov01.044339.5192@utexas.edu>, lkim@utexas.edu (Lucia Kim) 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. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. -- Mike Nakamura "Do not worship the copy." Amiga 3000T / FreeBSD 2.1 From hmacdonald@rwth-aachen.de Sun Nov 05 06:33:39 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!rwth-aachen!hmacdonald From: hmacdonald@rwth-aachen.de (Heather MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov05.063339.1813@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 1995 06:33:39 GMT References: <1995Nov01.044339.5192@utexas.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Nov01.044339.5192@utexas.edu>, lkim@utexas.edu (Lucia Kim) 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. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- Heather MacDonald Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From moliveira@illinois.edu Tue Nov 07 04:09:39 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!illinois!moliveira From: moliveira@illinois.edu (Marisol Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov07.040939.8453@illinois.edu> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 04:09:39 GMT References: <1995Nov01.044339.5192@utexas.edu> <1995Nov05.063339.1813@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Nov05.063339.1813@rwth-aachen.de>, hmacdonald@rwth-aachen.de (Heather MacDonald) writes: > I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. 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. -- Marisol Oliveira Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From rweber@kth.se Thu Nov 09 02:23:39 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!kth!rweber From: rweber@kth.se (Rodrigo Weber) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov09.022339.9771@kth.se> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 02:23:39 GMT References: <1995Nov01.044339.5192@utexas.edu> <1995Nov03.060939.6953@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov03.060939.6953@ox.ac.uk>, mnakamura@ox.ac.uk (Mike Nakamura) writes: > Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. -- Rodrigo Weber Hayes Optima 288 @ ISDN 64k bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."