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I stumbled on one of these transmissions once, and I did not realize that I was listening to a jammer. I thought I was hearing a cultural program on China Radio International! The idea of jamming with a loop of music like this is actually quite ingenious.

In the United States, mobile phone companies paid a great deal of money to the Federal Communication Commission (the government organization that regulates use of the airwaves) for the licenses that give them right to use radio spectrum to provide mobile phone service. In return, the FCC aggressi...

I found it a bit surprising that the South Korean feels a need to jam broadcasts from North Korea. I cannot believe that the South Korean government would imagine that its citizens might fall for the propaganda of the North Korean broadcasters.

By the way, the clips heard of North Korean radio a...

When this song was on the charts, I was under the impression that the lyrics were inspired by the political unrest taking place in various countries in Latin America. I had interpreted the lyrics as words of advice given by a soldier to a mother trying to protect her children. Seeing the video fo...

The dirty and damaged look of that Deception print is definitely a throwback to a different time. Seeing that reminds me that growing up, seeing dirty, beat-up film like this on broadcast television was a very common occurrence in the 1980s. I wonder how old that film print was and where it had...