8/19/2021

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I used to listen to international shortwave when I was younger. Most 
counties had an English news broadcast for half an hour or an hour everyday. 
VOA (Voice of America), BBC, DW (Deutsche Welle - West Germany), RNW (Radio 
Nederland - Holland), ABC (Australia), etc.

My Dad was a Ham radio operator and we had all the equipment to receive 
them.

This has pretty much died out now thanks to the internet - no need for 
shortwave to get a foreign news source anymore.

Anyway one of my favorite "gets" was evidently on July 17, 1973.

I picked up Radio Kabul, Afghanistan just that once and they were talking 
about people celebrating in the streets.

It sounded like it was their "Fourth of July" holiday and I assumed that's 
all it was.

Anyway, I saw later on the evening news that they had just overthrown their 
king!

It WAS their "Fourth of July" happening live!

1973 Afghan coup d'état
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Afghan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

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Stay Jazzed!
--Tom Swezey