{"id":14891,"date":"2015-09-20T07:33:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T11:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=14891"},"modified":"2015-09-20T07:33:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T11:33:39","slug":"kim-elliott-on-shortwave-radios-signal-jamming-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/kim-elliott-on-shortwave-radios-signal-jamming-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Elliott on shortwave radios &#038; signal jamming in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Russia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10871\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Russia.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Russian Federation (orthographic projection) - Crimea disputed&quot; by FutureTrillionaire - Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Russian_Federation_(orthographic_projection)_-_Crimea_disputed.svg#mediaviewer\/File:Russian_Federation_(orthographic_projection)_-_Crimea_disputed.svg\" width=\"640\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Russia.jpg 640w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Russia-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/uscpublicdiplomacy.org\/blog\/bbc-russian-wants-expand-its-not-so-easy\" target=\"_blank\">USC Center on Public Diplomacy<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>BBC Russian Wants to Expand, But It&#8217;s Not So Easy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The BBC, as part of its 2015 Charter Review document, announced proposals to \u201cinvest\u201d in BBC World Service. This includes a desire for a &#8220;bigger digital presence in Russian through a new digital service on platforms such as YouTube and the Russian equivalent Rutube, together with TV bulletins for neighbouring states. We would also start a feasibility study for a satellite TV channel for Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]The feasibility of BBC satellite TV for Russia is problematic. Very few Russians have rotatable satellite dishes, surfing the Clarke Belt in search of outside news. About 25% of Russian homes have fixed Ku-band satellite dishes to receive proprietary domestic direct-to-home services such as TricolorTV and NTV+. Western Russian-language news channels are not included in these channel packages and are unlikely to be invited aboard. Content from Western Russian-language broadcasters, including Voice of America and Radio Liberty, is also legally not welcome on Russian domestic terrestrial television and radio stations.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]So far, Russia has not blocked the Internet content of Western international broadcasters, at least not on a continuous basis. The Kremlin&#8217;s repeated denials of any intent to block Internet content suggest that it has at least been thinking about it. And recent press accounts indicate that Russian authorities may even try to ban anonymizers and other methods used to work around online censorship. Circumvention tools would have to become even cleverer, and Russian users would have to be willing and able to use them. In an extreme scenario, Russia could physically cut off the landlines of Internet traffic into the country. Then no circumvention tool within the Internet Protocol would work.<\/p>\n<p>This could bring BBC Russian full circle to the venerable but unfashionable medium of shortwave radio. To be sure, Russians are out of the habit of listening to shortwave. Shortwave is no longer used for domestic broadcasting in Russia. BBC Russian eliminated its shortwave broadcasts in 2011. But, if need be, Russians could dust off their Cold War era shortwave radios. Or they could purchase inexpensive Chinese-made portable radios with shortwave bands.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to traditional voice broadcasts, text, images, and even formatted web pages can now be broadcast using existing shortwave transmitters, and received on any shortwave radio. The audio must be fed to a PC or mobile device equipped with appropriate (free) software. Such a method allows reception of content even in difficult reception conditions, and allows unattended reception. This new capability of existing shortwave broadcast technology has been demonstrated through the VOA Radiogram experiments.<\/p>\n<p>If Russia blocks Internet content from abroad, it will also probably try to jam shortwave radio content from abroad. Most jamming transmitters of the Cold War era have been dismantled or have fallen into disrepair. Many of the jamming transmitters are outside of Russia, in former Soviet republics. Reviving a shortwave jamming apparatus would be a much more expensive proposition than blocking Internet content. Various Cold War anti-jamming tactics, using various tricks of ionospheric propagation, can be employed. Text via shortwave would be even more resistant to jamming than voice broadcasts.[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uscpublicdiplomacy.org\/blog\/bbc-russian-wants-expand-its-not-so-easy\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article by Kim Andrew Elliott at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy online.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source:\u00a0USC Center on Public Diplomacy) BBC Russian Wants to Expand, But It&#8217;s Not So Easy The BBC, as part of its 2015 Charter Review document, announced proposals to \u201cinvest\u201d in BBC World Service. This includes a desire for a &#8220;bigger digital presence in Russian through a new digital service on platforms such as YouTube and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3,43],"tags":[989,1664,1718,102,84],"class_list":["post-14891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-kim-andrew-elliott","tag-kim-elliott","tag-voa-radiogram","tag-why-radio","tag-why-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3Sb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58757,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/kim-elliott-why-we-need-shortwave-2-0\/","url_meta":{"origin":14891,"position":0},"title":"Kim Elliott: Why We Need \u201cShortwave 2.0\u201d","author":"Thomas","date":"January 23, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to a number of SWLing Post contributors who share the following article written by our friend Kim Elliott for Radio World: Why We Need \u201cShortwave 2.0\u201d by Kim Andrew Elliott Debate about the future of shortwave broadcasting focuses on the correct observation that shortwave listening is no longer\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;International Broadcasting&quot;","block_context":{"text":"International Broadcasting","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/international-broadcasting\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Radio-Exterior-IC-705-Waterfall-Display.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Radio-Exterior-IC-705-Waterfall-Display.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Radio-Exterior-IC-705-Waterfall-Display.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Radio-Exterior-IC-705-Waterfall-Display.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Radio-Exterior-IC-705-Waterfall-Display.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Radio-Exterior-IC-705-Waterfall-Display.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10569,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/radio-world-international-broadcasters-reconsider-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":14891,"position":1},"title":"Radio World: International Broadcasters Reconsider Shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"August 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out this article from Radio World which addresses\u00a0the state\u00a0of shortwave radio broadcasting. Jeff White of WRMI and Kim Elliott of the VOA are both interviewed. Elliott even speaks about the virtues of the VOA Radiogram experiments which have had success circumventing shortwave radio jamming (broadcasts which were completely omitted\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Sackville-radio-towers-li","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Sackville-radio-towers-li.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Sackville-radio-towers-li.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Sackville-radio-towers-li.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4895,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/saturday-from-bulgaria-dr-elliott-will-control-your-web-browser\/","url_meta":{"origin":14891,"position":2},"title":"Saturday, from Bulgaria, Dr. Elliott will control your web browser","author":"Thomas","date":"November 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"As DRMNA.info says: \"Let Dr. Elliott take control of your PC!\" I agree. On several\u00a0occasions now, Dr. Kim Elliott has transmitted digital messages via shortwave radio in an assortment of digital modes. We've mentioned this in the past (and we even posted a tutorial on decoding his WBCQ message). Early\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-ontheairmicrophone-002-300x233.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":52794,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/cbs-features-wrmis-ukraine-war-news-over-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":14891,"position":3},"title":"CBS features WRMI&#8217;s Ukraine war news over shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"May 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Kim Elliott, who shares the following report from CBS Weekend News: Florida residents broadcast Ukraine war news to Russian citizens (CBS Weekend News) A farm in central Florida has become one of the largest shortwave radio operations in the world. Using Cold War era\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;International Broadcasting&quot;","block_context":{"text":"International Broadcasting","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/international-broadcasting\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kenwood-R-2000-Dial.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kenwood-R-2000-Dial.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kenwood-R-2000-Dial.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kenwood-R-2000-Dial.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":20291,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/radio-world-the-evolution-of-shortwave-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":14891,"position":4},"title":"Radio World: The evolution of shortwave radio","author":"Thomas","date":"August 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Richard Langley, who shares the following article by James Careless in Radio World Magazine. The article includes interviews with Andy Sennitt, Kim Andrew Elliott, Nigel Fry, \u00a0and even yours truly. The following is a short excerpt taken from the introduction of the article: (Source:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;International Broadcasting&quot;","block_context":{"text":"International Broadcasting","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/international-broadcasting\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Panasonic-RF-2200-1","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Panasonic-RF-2200-1-1024x632.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Panasonic-RF-2200-1-1024x632.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Panasonic-RF-2200-1-1024x632.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":26618,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/shortwave-radiogram-begins-june-24-25-2017\/","url_meta":{"origin":14891,"position":5},"title":"Shortwave Radiogram begins June 24-25, 2017","author":"Thomas","date":"June 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Shortwave Radiogram via Tom Ally) Shortwave Radiogram begins 24-25 June 2017 The Shortwave Radiogram transmission schedule: Sunday 0600-0630 UTC 7730 kHz Sunday 2030-2100 UTC 11580 kHz Sunday 2330-2400 UTC 11580 kHz All via WRMI in Florida Great to see that Kim Elliott isn't skipping a beat moving from the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Digital Modes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Digital Modes","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/digital-modes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Shortwave-Radiogram-1024x386.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Shortwave-Radiogram-1024x386.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Shortwave-Radiogram-1024x386.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}