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.