VLVL2 (15): Radio Thanatoid

[Dave Monroe]

   "This time what went rolling out, whistling in the
dark valleys, chasing the squall lines, impinging on
the sensors of more than one kind of life in the
countryside below, wasn't just the usual 'Call of the
Thanatoids'--this was long, desolate howling, repeated
over and over, impossible for Takeshi and DL, even in
their high-tech aerie down south, to ignore.  They
found Radio Thanatoid on the peculiar band between
6200 and 700 kilohertz and tuned it in for Prairie,
who after a while shook her head sadly.  'What are we
gonna do about this?'" (VL, Ch. 15, p. 325)


"long, desolate howling, repeated over and over"

Cf., e.g., ...

http://www.rru.com/~meo/music/mmm/

http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/reviews/index.php?review_id=247

Recall that final, locked groove in particular ...


Most of the characters in the novel who witnessed the
sixties are caught up in an endless circle of
repetitions. Caught in a timeless zone, they are
unable to reconnect with their pasts: Zoyd annually
jumps through plate-glass windows, Frenesi submits
herself to ever shadier jobs for the state, Brock Vond
compulsively sleeps with women, and almost everyone,
especially the Thanatoids, is addicted to TV. These
repetitions remind one of Freud's concept of the
compulsion to repeat which can often be witnessed in
traumatized persons.[...] The Thanatoids also appear
as traumatized persons, "victims of Karmic imbalances
? unanswered blows, unredeemed suffering, escapes by
the guilty." (p. 173) 

The Thanatoids are unable to deal with their past or
redeem their suffering because that would mean a
departure from the pain-free realm of television....

http://home.foni.net/~vhummel/Image-Fiction/chapter_4.2.2.html

http://home.foni.net/~vhummel/Image-Fiction/chapter_4.html

http://home.foni.net/~vhummel/Image-Fiction/TOC.html


p. 325 "the peculiar band between 6200 and 7000 KHZ"  
Why peculiar?

http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/chapter15.htm

6200 to 6525 kHz: This is a very busy band for
maritime communication in USB and various FSK modes
like AMTOR and FEC.

6525 to 6765 kHz: This is another busy band, this time
for aeronautical communications in USB. Best reception
is during the evening and night hours. 

6765 to 7000 kHz: This segment is allocated to fixed
stations, with signals in SSB, CW, FAX modes, and
miscellaneous digital modes.

http://www.dxing.com/tuning.htm

6200-6525

MARITIME MOBILE 5.109 5.110 5.130 5.132

6525-6685

AERONAUTICAL MOBILE (R)

6685-6765

AERONAUTICAL MOBILE (OR)

6765-7000

FIXED

MOBILE except aeronautical mobile (R)
 
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/wrc03results/FCC_Transmittal_Letter_Enclosure2.htm

And see as well ...

http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/genmen/frequency.hts

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/allochrt.html

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/allochrt.pdf

Okay, gotta send this before it crashes, so ...


	
		
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