Zimbabwe radio receiver ban

[palani]

A 'listeners license'? What better way to control what you hear?

http://news.yahoo.com/media-group-zimbabwe-radio-receiver-ban-illegal-110233833.html


Media freedom campaigners said Friday police in Zimbabwe are breaking the law by seizing and banning small radio receivers that can tune in to stations not linked to the state broadcasting monopoly controlled by President Robert Mugabe's party.

The Media Institute of Southern Africa said Friday no regulations outlaw the hand-cranked, solar powered radios that democracy and election support groups plan to use ahead of a referendum on a new constitution next month and crucial elections later in the year. Police insist the radios and cheap Chinese 3G smartphones with GPS capability are being supplied by "subversive organizations" and pose a security threat surrounding the polling.

The media group said any broadcast receiver only requires a routine listeners' license, and the police action was a grave threat to active and informed participation in upcoming voting.

[woodman]

Orwelian.

[woodman]

I suppose the best way to control what is said is to control what is heard.

[Dogman]

What they are doing in Zimbabwe is typical of repressive regimes present and past, when it comes to trying to control what the population hears and sees. There were and are radios that are capable of only receiving certain select frequency's and block everything else.

But the requirement of paying for a "Listening license" to receive and listen to radio or watching tv programming is surprising to some.

Hell I did not know that there are a huge number of country's that the people do not have the freedom to hear radio or watch tv whenever and where ever they want, until just a few years ago.

Those country's allow the people to do so only if they buy monthly or yearly subscriptions that are usually called "Television License's" and can not do as we do in the states here and listen to what we want, when ever and where ever we want.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence#Africa

Zimbabwe's government is trying to hang onto power.

Robert Mugabe is getting old (89) and when he kicks the can, (probably sooner than later) it will be interesting to see what that country will do.

[Uncle Salty]

If ever a country needed regime change, this is it. But what, they don't sit on enough oil priced in US Dollars to justify it?

Somebody should off that old tyrannical fuck.

[Ponce]

Back in Cuba you were not allowed to have short wave radio, that way you could not hear news from the U.S.........wha is happening now in Rhodesia with radios is what will happen here in the states with the WWW......only thing is that here all that they will have to do is to flip one swich.

First post of the day...........good morning to one and all.

V

[General of Darkness]

Negros are just a dumbed down version of jews.

[joboo]

Now everyone's going to want one.

Radio receiver supply shortage on the horizon...

[Twisted Titan]

Talking about devine timing

Can anybody recomend a HAM radio?

Just i was looking at this

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004WKH00M/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_6?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2IHVTQHK5SYKV


Is this any good?

[osoab]

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/pictures/picture-5.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden)
Zimbabwe's Mugabe Proclaims Himself Africa's Goldman Sachs (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-21/mugabe-proclaims-himself-africas-goldman-sachs)
Submitted by Tyler Durden (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden) on 02/21/2013 - 18:59

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2013/02/20130221_mugabe_0.jpg


Since we first started discussing the new frontier of investment (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-27/go-south-young-man-africa-scramble) (or economic hitmen), Africa has been appearing more and more in the headlines - from labor conditions in the South to military action in the North. Natural resources and leverageable assets remain key as the infamous Zimbabwean 'dictator' Robert Mugabe, fighting for re-election at the age of 89, maintains that Zimbabwe's difficulties stem from a Western plot to re-colonize it. With more than 80% of the country unemployed but rampant inflation somewhat calmed, Reuters notes (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/21/us-zimbabwe-mugabe-idUSBRE91K0QN20130221) that Mugabe believes "It's God's choice" that he is running in this close election. Just like Goldman Sachs "doing God's work", Mugabe believes "this is a task the Lord might have wanted me to fulfill among my people...," regarding the liberation struggle for black economic empowerment. More than 4,000 out of an original 4,500 white-owned farms have been seized since 2000 under a program he says is aimed at correcting land ownership imbalances created by colonialism. The consensus is that a free and fair election will create a true democratic outcome, but as one local noted "with his record I just don't see how Mugabe can win a free and fair election." Indeed, though the jackals remain.

3 eggs...
"Zimbabwe's stock market was the best performer this decade - but your entire portfolio now buys you 3 eggs" (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-01/kyle-bass-tells-nominal-stock-market-cheerleaders-remember-zimbabwe)

[palani]

Is this any good?

Only if you like talking to repeaters on 2 meters. Very limited to the local area but nice for that purpose.

This one gets you 2 meters as well as all the high frequency bands plus short wave. Price is commensurate.

http://www.yaesu.com/indexvs.cfm?cmd=DisplayProducts&ProdCatID=102&encProdID=06014CD0AFA0702B25B12AB4DC9C0D27

[Dogman]

Hard question to ask and answer, but anything made by the big 3 are good. And there is a huge used market for these radios, they hold their value.

Look at Kenwood's, Yaesu's and Icoms, all make great radios.

My two main HF rigs are a Kenwood 940SDX (AC only) and a Yaesu FT-897D both are kick ass. Tho the FT-897D is 12VDC and mainly a mobile(which it has). But I also use it on 120V with the add on power supply as a stationary radio.

My two meter radios are a mix of Yasu and Kenwood's.

There are several good HF international broadcast band radios (receive only) out there also made by these company's.

When it comes to ham radios, it is best to do your own due diligence and study them, because you can ask 5 ham operators their opinion's on any radio and get 20 answers back. ;D

[palani]

When it comes to ham radios, it is best to do your own due diligence and study them, because you can ask 5 ham operators their opinion's on any radio and get 20 answers back. ;D

9 out of 10 hams agree.... Collins is the best ... just don't plan on throwing them in a backpack and trekking to a mountain hideaway.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Collins_S3_Line_FSc_090326.jpg/300px-Collins_S3_Line_FSc_090326.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Collins_30L-1_090327.jpg/200px-Collins_30L-1_090327.jpg

Also, this lineup is to the Icoms/Yaesu/Kenwoods as gold is to toothpaste.

[osoab]

Only if you like talking to repeaters on 2 meters. Very limited to the local area but nice for that purpose.

This one gets you 2 meters as well as all the high frequency bands plus short wave. Price is commensurate.

http://www.yaesu.com/indexvs.cfm?cmd=DisplayProducts&ProdCatID=102&encProdID=06014CD0AFA0702B25B12AB4DC9C0D27


Hard question to ask and answer, but anything made by the big 3 are good. And there is a huge used market for these radios, they hold their value.

Look at Kenwood's, Yaesu's and Icoms, all make great radios.

My two main HF rigs are a Kenwood 940SDX (AC only) and a Yaesu FT-897D both are kick ass. Tho the FT-897D is 12VDC and mainly a mobile(which it has). But I also use it on 120V with the add on power supply as a stationary radio.

My two meter radios are a mix of Yasu and Kenwood's.

There are several good HF international broadcast band radios (receive only) out there also made by these company's.

When it comes to ham radios, it is best to do your own due diligence and study them, because you can ask 5 ham operators their opinion's on any radio and get 20 answers back. ;D

Then you have to add in the antenna, unit mount, antenna mount, a computer program to program the thing, and more than likely a specific cable to hook it up to a pc. Not to mention power supply or rigging the vehicle to power the unit.

It isn't just the radio. Take your time in looking TT.

[Dogman]

Then you have to add in the antenna, unit mount, antenna mount, a computer program to program the thing, and more than likely a specific cable to hook it up to a pc. Not to mention power supply or rigging the vehicle to power the unit.

It isn't just the radio. Take your time in looking TT. Most of us make our own cables, and still old school program the radios. Tho the 2 meter handhelds are easier to program if a computer is used.

Yes if mounting the radio in a vehicle it is involved and sometime nightmare, because of rf messing with the vehicle's computer. (The story's I could tell) New cars and trucks are a bitch to mount them in, that goes along with antennas also! You need to pop holes in the sheet metal and reenforce the mount (most new vehicles are made out of 2 beer cans) unless you bumper mount and some bumpers are trash for that. Etc, Etc.

But for home use with a dc radio with a power supply the antenna question becomes better, but also can be a headache, unless you have trees in your yard and or live in a place that you can put up a pole or tower.

[Dogman]

9 out of 10 hams agree.... Collins is the best ... just don't plan on throwing them in a backpack and trekking to a mountain hideaway.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Collins_S3_Line_FSc_090326.jpg/300px-Collins_S3_Line_FSc_090326.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Collins_30L-1_090327.jpg/200px-Collins_30L-1_090327.jpg

Also, this lineup is to the Icoms/Yaesu/Kenwoods as gold is to toothpaste.

S-Line's were way ahead of their time and still are great radios for what they are and were intended for.

Edit: And also they unlike most others probably will and could survive a EMP pulse along with the other tube radio lines.

But they do lack the bells and whistles that radios have today. (Which is not a totally bad thing)