From rmacdonald@u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed Oct 23 04:54:33 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!u-tokyo!rmacdonald From: rmacdonald@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Rodrigo MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Oct23.045433.6906@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 04:54:33 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. What did the Mexican regional master contain that terrified the authorities? -- === Rodrigo MacDonald === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "They will send a copy in my place." From lhughes@u-tokyo.ac.jp Thu Oct 24 22:54:33 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!u-tokyo!lhughes From: lhughes@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Lars Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Oct24.225433.8960@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 22:54:33 GMT References: <1996Oct23.045433.6906@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct23.045433.6906@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, rmacdonald@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Rodrigo MacDonald) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. 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. -- Lars Hughes *PLONK* filter active for trolls. PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) - NetBSD 1.0 From tlindqvist@ox.ac.uk Sun Oct 27 02:18:33 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!ox!tlindqvist From: tlindqvist@ox.ac.uk (Tomas Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Oct27.021833.6319@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 02:18:33 GMT References: <1996Oct23.045433.6906@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1996Oct24.225433.8960@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996Oct24.225433.8960@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, lhughes@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Lars Hughes) 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. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- === Tomas Lindqvist === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Oxford University Computing Laboratory "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From mtanaka@clari.net Sun Oct 27 16:35:33 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!clari!mtanaka From: mtanaka@clari.net (Mateo Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Oct27.163533.8592@clari.net> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 16:35:33 GMT References: <1996Oct23.045433.6906@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1996Oct24.225433.8960@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct24.225433.8960@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, lhughes@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Lars Hughes) 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. 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. -- Mateo Tanaka US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 33,600 bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."