running dogg wrote:

Guy Atkins wrote:

Yes, I believe that was the reported power... a 100 watt transceiver cranked
down to 80 watts to preserve the final in the tropical heat.

A Google *Groups* search on keywords "Radio Free Bougainville Power" brings
up a message thread from 1995 with more information on the coconut oil
subject. People were executed for gathering coconuts for this purpose!

Who were they rebelling against, what government? You guys haven't
filled me in on the details. What happened to the revolutionaries,
ultimately?

A Google on 'Bougainville Revolution' will probably get you what you want.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

In article ,
"Guy Atkins" wrote:

I've posted a short recording of Radio Free Bougainville, from the time I
heard them at a Grayland, WA DXpedition. The date was June 16, 1993, and the
time was 1120 UTC. Listen for the two IDs in Pidgin:

http://www.guyatkins.com/files/R_Free_Bougainvile.MP3 (84 kB file size)

Guy Atkins
Puyallup, WA
SDR-1000 blog: www.sdr-1000.blogspot.com


A little hard to make out but it sure tastes good!

Greg

dxAce wrote:



running dogg wrote:

Guy Atkins wrote:

Yes, I believe that was the reported power... a 100 watt transceiver cranked
down to 80 watts to preserve the final in the tropical heat.

A Google *Groups* search on keywords "Radio Free Bougainville Power" brings
up a message thread from 1995 with more information on the coconut oil
subject. People were executed for gathering coconuts for this purpose!

Who were they rebelling against, what government? You guys haven't
filled me in on the details. What happened to the revolutionaries,
ultimately?

A Google on 'Bougainville Revolution' will probably get you what you want.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

That turned up a lot of info on the Frenchman who was the first
Westerner to set foot on the island-and for whom the island was
named-but little on the revolution. The best I could find was this:

http://www.eco-action.org/ssp/bougainville.html

Very pro-Bougainville, but the best synopsis I could find. Apparently
they were rebelling against a Western-owned mine that destroyed their
environment. They are part of Papua New Guinea. The blockade lasted for
most of the 1990s. Today, the revolutionaries rule the center of the
island, where the mine was located, but the PNG govt rules the coast.
They used coconut oil for EVERYTHING, not just powering the transmitter.
This website doesn't mention the radio station, but I presume that
eventually the transmitter conked out-it was probably found in the stuff
that the miners abandoned when the Bougainvilleans kicked them out.

FDR wrote:


"running dogg" wrote in message
...
I seem to remember hearing about a rebellious island somewhere in the
South Pacific (although I'm not sure where, or who they were rebelling
against) that had an "official voice" that ran on coconuts. Every year
they'd harvest the coconuts, eat some, then burn the rest to keep the tx
going for a while. Then the coconuts would run out, and they'd have to
shut down until next year. This was necessary because the govt they were
rebelling against had a total blockade in effect. I think the station
was called Radio Bougainville or something. Anybody know what I'm
talking about?


Yeah, it was Gilligan's Island.

Off-topic: ever notice how the Gilligan's castaways supposedly remained
plump and groomed after years on the island? You'd think that they'd
look like Tom Hanks in Castaway-dirty, unkempt and rail thin. Yet
another unrealistic TV show from the 60s.

WHAT?? Gilligan's Island wasn't real ????? What about My Favorite
Martian?


Off-topic: ever notice how the Gilligan's castaways supposedly remained
plump and groomed after years on the island? You'd think that they'd
look like Tom Hanks in Castaway-dirty, unkempt and rail thin. Yet
another unrealistic TV show from the 60s.

WHAT?? Gilligan's Island wasn't real ????? What about My Favorite
Martian?


Off-topic: ever notice how the Gilligan's castaways supposedly remained
plump and groomed after years on the island? You'd think that they'd
look like Tom Hanks in Castaway-dirty, unkempt and rail thin. Yet
another unrealistic TV show from the 60s.

running dogg wrote:
I seem to remember hearing about a rebellious island somewhere in the
South Pacific (although I'm not sure where, or who they were rebelling
against) that had an "official voice" that ran on coconuts. Every year
they'd harvest the coconuts, eat some, then burn the rest to keep the tx
going for a while. Then the coconuts would run out, and they'd have to
shut down until next year. This was necessary because the govt they were
rebelling against had a total blockade in effect. I think the station
was called Radio Bougainville or something. Anybody know what I'm
talking about?

I remember that, the skipper, professor and the rest.......

From: running dogg
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:25:29 -0800
Subject: Anybody remember a clandestine station that ran on coconuts?

FDR wrote:


"running dogg" wrote in message
...
I seem to remember hearing about a rebellious island somewhere in the
South Pacific (although I'm not sure where, or who they were rebelling
against) that had an "official voice" that ran on coconuts. Every year
they'd harvest the coconuts, eat some, then burn the rest to keep the tx
going for a while. Then the coconuts would run out, and they'd have to
shut down until next year. This was necessary because the govt they were
rebelling against had a total blockade in effect. I think the station
was called Radio Bougainville or something. Anybody know what I'm
talking about?


Yeah, it was Gilligan's Island.

Off-topic: ever notice how the Gilligan's castaways supposedly remained
plump and groomed after years on the island? You'd think that they'd
look like Tom Hanks in Castaway-dirty, unkempt and rail thin. Yet
another unrealistic TV show from the 60s.

I noticed how Maryann stayed plump and groomed!

Greg