{"id":54680,"date":"2022-11-18T09:30:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=54680"},"modified":"2022-11-18T09:30:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:30:18","slug":"book-recommendation-war-diaries-a-radio-amateur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/book-recommendation-war-diaries-a-radio-amateur\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Recommendation: War Diaries – A Radio Amateur"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Earlier this week, I learned that my friend Volodymyr (US7IGN) published his book War Diaries: A Radio Amateur in Kyiv<\/em><\/a> on Amazon.com and I immediately purchased and read it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you’d like to know what it’s been like for a radio listener and ham radio operator living day-to-day in Kyiv since Russia invaded Ukraine earlier this year, I highly recommend reading War Diaries<\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Volodymyr (or Wlod) is a regular<\/a> here on the SWLing Post <\/em>and simply amazing fellow. We share a love of playing radio outdoors and were even recently featured on BBC Radio 4<\/a>.\u00a0 Sadly, due to the nature of living in a war zone, Wlod cannot escape urban RFI\/QRM by making journeys into the forest. These days, that would be a very<\/em> dangerous activity.<\/p>\n

Instead, Wlod makes the most out of the blackouts caused by Russian missile attacks: he enjoys the radio quiet conditions to listen to and DX stations across the globe from his small apartment on vintage radios that he’s repaired.<\/p>\n

In fact, here’s a most recent longwave scan Wlod shared during a blackout with his vintage Radiotehnika Riga-104:<\/p>\n