"tommyknocker" wrote in message
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Don Del Grande wrote:

david_ruy-barbosa wrote:

How many frequencies do they need!?!?!?

One more than can be jammed, I would guess.

-- Don

What I don't get is why, when the "bad guys" have found a frequency and
are jamming it regularly, they continue broadcasting there. Radio Free
Asia, which is also a US Govt operation, does the same thing-on any
given day around 1200 UTC you can hear RFA ALL OVER the bands,
practically on every third freq, and every single one of those freqs has
that distinctive Chinese jammer. If it's being jammed, STOP USING IT!
DUH! I thought the whole point of having lots of frequencies was that
the "bad guys" couldn't possibly jam all of them, but if they find out
where you are, that sort of defeats the whole point.

I regularly listen to a station here in S. Korea (1080 KHz) that's heavily
jammed (I'd say in the hundreds of thousands of watts, judging by the signal
strength) by the North Koreans. Just because it's jammed, doesn't mean it
doesn't still reach a good number of it's intended audience.

Also, although YOU may not listen to jammed or noisy signals, many billions
in this part of the world do regularly, since it's the only way they have of
hearing news from the outside world. We in the west are far too used to
having things 'perfect', and most of us do not realize the hardships much of
the world goes through to have the smallest bit of the information (or other
things, for that matter) that we have.