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- In spring 1988 a huge new campaign
- was started for a new beginning of the
- RWR transmissions with high power.
- Results were encouraging and it seemed
- that the people were very interested in
- Free Radio. The new transmitter arrived
- shortly before Easter 1988. The new
- transmitter was a 150 watt one with a
- 2-element Yagi directional antenna.Out-
- put power was 300 watts in STEREO which
- was more than the power of the legal
- local radio in Jyvaskyla.
- High power transmissions started
- April 8th 1988 at 23.00 Finnish time in
- 95.5 MHz FM,in stereo.That transmission
- went all right and the reception had
- been good for long distances, too. RWR
- also got pretty good publicity both in
- local and national medias. RWR appeared
- for the second time in Commercial TV's
- 10 o'clock news,too. PTL and police had
- been in Jyvaskyla with 8 cars full of
- men and a reward was promised to those
- who'd catch RWR in action.
- Before the beginning of broadcasts
- there had been lots of talk in medias
- about the danger pirate radios present
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- for aircraft and other radio
- communication. After RWR started there
- was nothing like that in newspapers
- anymore. All noticed that RWR uses high
- quality equipment, for example the
- stereocoder was made by a dutch pro-
- fessor of technique!
- A week later RWR's story was close to
- its end. In April 15th 1988 PTL and
- police arrived to the place of
- transmission only two minutes after the
- end of the program. RWR-boys managed to
- run away, but some of the equipment was
- lost in the woods. PTL followed for a
- few kilometers but RWR ran faster.
- Broadcasts were difficult to do since
- there was still some 70-100 cm snow in
- forests. Also the situation was really
- heating up, because there were so many
- PLT people in town. They had been on
- RWR's trail for almost three years and
- now it seemed that they really wanted
- to close down RWR. That was why RWR
- decided to have a little break after
- one more broadcast and wait until the
- snow disappeared.
- The transmission was in April 22nd
- 1988 at 23.00. ----->
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