Re: [HCDX]: R.San Marino Intl. once again...

["Don Moore" <MOORE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Henderson's example of the Vietnamese station is a good one. 
There is a distinction to be made between clandestines and pirates. 
Remember that the VietCong considered themselves more or less a 
different government from the official South Vietnamese government 
and, in a sense, had granted themselves a license. They were a 
significant and organized guerilla army (not just a few nuts in the 
mountains). A similar case would be the El Salvadoran clandestine 
stations of the 1980s. They were obviously not licensed by the El 
Salvadoran government, but they were the official voices of the 
opposition in an extensive and lengthy civil war. The stations were 
clearly broadcasting from within El Salvador both because they were 
visited many times by reporters and other neutral third parties, and 
because the content of some of their broadcasts was too "immediate" 
to have originate from anyplace other than the war front, which is 
where they were located. Loggings of those stations certainly should 
count as El Salvador. 

Don Moore   moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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