"ryan wiehle" wrote in message
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Greg wrote:

there used to be press services on RTTY.

The last non-ham RTTY station I remember receiving was a news service for
North Korea, years ago.

I had a PK-232 TNC, with it's SIAM ( signal identification ) mode that would
sniff out the parameters on a mystery signal and attempt to display it for
you. It worked pretty well, I thought, decoding oddball digital stuff more
often than I expected it to.

It was strange to see outdated old Soviet propaganda phrases about
"imperialist capitalist dogs" and about how the standard of living in North
Korea had gotten so good that they were having to turn Americans immigrants
away from the border, seeking asylum.

I've looked for - but not found - anything quite so funny and tragic at the
same time as that RTTY news service from "the people's democratic republic
of Korea" or whatever it was called back then. - It's been a while, I can't
remember for sure.


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