Václav Dosoudil

"How did you live in Czechoslovakia in the first half of the 1970s?" - "The way I characterized it was that I decided to emigrate by radio. That's what I said. I stopped listening to the news on Czechoslovak Radio and Television. I took my information from the West and created my own world. An enclosed atmosphere that was permeable to the extent that I took the news out. And I took less of what was disseminated in our country. What was the target of domestic propaganda. But I wasn't completely immune to it. You could still hear the radio somewhere, and the television too. But I was able to live with it and that's how I resisted the Normalization and tried to free myself from it."

"How did those local jammers work that were near the big cities?" - "These were jammers attached to the medium-wave transmitters used by Czechoslovak Radio at that time. People were working there who were sworn to silence. Nowhere was it mentioned that there were any jammers at all. Of course, we were interested in where the jammers were, and we tried to find out. We went around fences, around antennas, we had transistor radios and we found out that it was right there. The most famous city jammer was in Prague at the Petřín Hill. So when you walked up the Petřín Hill to the lookout tower, you were under the antennas of the jammer. Petřín was a convenient place because the waves from the hill spread over the whole city and caused trouble all over Prague."