{"id":52404,"date":"2022-04-09T08:37:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T12:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=52404"},"modified":"2022-04-09T08:37:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T12:37:16","slug":"ft-video-ukraines-battle-of-the-airwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/ft-video-ukraines-battle-of-the-airwaves\/","title":{"rendered":"FT Video: &#8220;Ukraine&#8217;s battle of the airwaves&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TheBuzzer_2020-07-18_011335-KiwiSDR-Waterfall-e1595417023639.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44450\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TheBuzzer_2020-07-18_011335-KiwiSDR-Waterfall-e1595417023639.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"434\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to a number of <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributors who share a link to the following video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/video\/4adad9c9-151b-4448-8547-908b49d74fde\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via the Financial Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Description:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A look at three aspects of wartime radio in Ukraine: the interception of communications between Russian soldiers, how broadcasters are using radio to combat censorship online, and the mysterious silence of a radio transmitter known as &#8216;The Russian Lady&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fn9q7V1m0Ps?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fn9q7V1m0Ps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/video\/4adad9c9-151b-4448-8547-908b49d74fde\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here to view on the Financial Times website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to a number of SWLing Post contributors who share a link to the following video via the Financial Times. Description: A look at three aspects of wartime radio in Ukraine: the interception of communications between Russian soldiers, how broadcasters are using radio to combat censorship online, and the mysterious silence of a radio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[81,3,43,158,304],"tags":[9757,9758,3735,2093,9688,2615,4093],"class_list":["post-52404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-software-defined-radio","category-videos","tag-financial-times","tag-ft","tag-military-communications","tag-russia","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine","tag-ukraine","tag-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dDe","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52125,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/radio-exterior-de-espana-broadcasts-to-ukraine-and-russia-via-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":52404,"position":0},"title":"Radio Exterior de Espa\u00f1a broadcasts to Ukraine and Russia via shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"March 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mangosman, for sharing the following press release from Radio Exterior de Espa\u00f1a. Please note that the original press release was in Spanish and can be viewed at RTVE Comunicaci\u00f3n. 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