From ceriksson@cam.ac.uk Mon Jan 03 07:15:12 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cam!ceriksson From: ceriksson@cam.ac.uk (Callum Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Jan03.071512.9038@cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 1994 07:15:12 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. Witnesses reported seeing military intelligence trucks parked outside the Coyoacán telephone exchange on Calle Del Carmen. At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. The decoded line for Node 04: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH NOT A STAR.' -- Callum Eriksson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0 From mmacdonald@demon.co.uk Mon Jan 03 14:01:12 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!demon!mmacdonald From: mmacdonald@demon.co.uk (Marisol MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Jan03.140112.5713@demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 1994 14:01:12 GMT References: <1994Jan03.071512.9038@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jan03.071512.9038@cam.ac.uk>, ceriksson@cam.ac.uk (Callum Eriksson) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- Marisol MacDonald Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Demon Internet Services UK. ------------------------------------------------------------ From akang@utexas.edu Tue Jan 04 18:23:12 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!utexas!akang From: akang@utexas.edu (Astrid Kang) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Jan04.182312.8491@utexas.edu> Date: Tue, 04 Jan 1994 18:23:12 GMT References: <1994Jan03.071512.9038@cam.ac.uk> <1994Jan03.140112.5713@demon.co.uk> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jan03.140112.5713@demon.co.uk>, mmacdonald@demon.co.uk (Marisol 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. -- === Astrid Kang === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From elena@redcoyoacan.org Sun Jan 08 21:14:00 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!elena From: elena@redcoyoacan.org (Elena Vazquez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Jan08.211400.8804@redcoyoacan.org> Date: Sun, 08 Jan 1995 21:14:00 GMT References: <1994Jan03.071512.9038@cam.ac.uk> <1994Jan03.140112.5713@demon.co.uk> Organization: Red Coyoacan Tape Exchange, Mexico D.F. NNTP-Posting-Host: redcoyoacan.org X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 14 For everyone asking whether the July 6, 1988 Coyoacan pirate FM cassette ('104.3 MHz, 20:14 CST') actually exists: YES. We finally digitized the original CrO2 cassette recorded off Calle del Carmen during 'se cayo el sistema' and uploaded the raw audio + spectrogram to the Ashford/Orion forensic mirror: Audio Exhibit : /forensics/coyoacan_1988_node04_cassette.mp3 Signal Lab : /forensics/signal_lab.html Full Decode : See Entry #24 (s17914.txt) in this newsgroup for the bit-by-bit 750 Hz CW / 14.2001 Hz DBPSK frame decoding to 'ORION BUILT A PATCH NOT A STAR' (Passkey: COYOACAN-88). -- Elena Vazquez // Red Coyoacan BBS // Node 04 Archive