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This was a very interesting article. However, I was surprised that it
didn't mention A Voz do Resistencia Galo Negro, also known as VORGAN.
I'm not up on Angolan politcs, but this was the clandestine radio
station operated by the anti-government guerilla forces who occupied
a portion of southern Angola. For years it operated openly out of a
town in southern Angola that was the defacto capital of the guerilla
held area. The name of the town escapes me at the moment. Sometime in
the last year, as part of the peace accords reached in Angola, VORGAN
was granted status as a legal broadcaster. As VORGAN uses shortwave,
it shouldn't be too difficult to hear throughout Angola with cheap
consumer grade radios that have a shortwave band, as are very common
in Africa.

For radio hobbyists elsewhere, VORGAN has always been easy to hear on
shortwave. I first heard it over ten years ago (I remember as I was
in Argentina at the time and had great reception just across the
South Atlantic). More recently, I listened to it a couple of
afternoons last December here in the USA during Christmas break. I
don't understand much Portuguese, but they play some great
African music. I know they are still on the air, as I continue to see
reports of them in the shortwave listener hobby press.

The shortwave hobby press is a wonderful resource of information too
often ignored by professional radio researchers. There are hundreds
of serious hobbyists around the world monitoring broadcasts all the
time and exchanging information.  Not much gets by such an extensive
network of informed monitors. BTW, A Voz do Resistencia Galo Negro
translates as The Voice of the Resistance of the Black Cockeral. One
of the more colorful names for a radio station.

Don Moore   moore@acc.mcrest.edu
http://www.mcrest.edu/~moore/patepluma.html (Int. radio homepage)
Marycrest International University
Davenport, Iowa, USA