Radio & TV: Outside the Law

It was enough of a mystery to throw the Federal Communications Commission into a dither. Somewhere in central Ohio an unlicensed radio station was broadcasting with the call letters WKGR. This report was handed to Investigator Edward Adams. Adams hurried into his car, equipped with all the gadgets for locating secret transmitters, and headed for the countryside around Columbus.

No Codes. In Ohio's rural Union County, Adams picked up his first, faint signal on a frequency of 650 kilocycles. To his surprise, station WKGR, instead of sending out cryptic or coded messages, was blithely...

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