{"id":59340,"date":"2024-03-23T15:02:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T19:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=59340"},"modified":"2024-03-22T07:07:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T11:07:56","slug":"paul-spots-an-aor-ar-3000a-in-20-days-in-mariupol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/paul-spots-an-aor-ar-3000a-in-20-days-in-mariupol\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul spots an AOR AR-3000A in &#8220;20 Days in Mariupol&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Paul, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Hi Thomas,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;20 Days in Mariupol&#8221; won this year&#8217;s Oscar for Best Documentary.<br \/>\nThe movie is about the Russian siege to that city in the opening days<br \/>\nof the Ukraine invasion, as recounted by a filmmaker located there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/mariupol.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59341\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/mariupol.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/mariupol.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/mariupol-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/mariupol-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/mariupol-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/mariupol-624x351.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">There is a segment of the movie about Russia&#8217;s use of propaganda to<br \/>\ndemoralize the local population. The still photo shows an AOR AR-3000a<br \/>\ncommunications receiver playing a Russian broadcast, trying to<br \/>\nconvince the city&#8217;s inhabitants that they cannot stop the invasion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">That radio <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/a-review-of-the-aor-ar-3000a-wideband-receiver\/\">was reviewed on The SWLing Post<\/a> a few years ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"l8etgjTRzg\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/a-review-of-the-aor-ar-3000a-wideband-receiver\/\">A review of the AOR AR-3000A Wideband Receiver<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;A review of the AOR AR-3000A Wideband Receiver&#8221; &#8212; The SWLing Post\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/a-review-of-the-aor-ar-3000a-wideband-receiver\/embed\/#?secret=GxqSDdUzxg#?secret=l8etgjTRzg\" data-secret=\"l8etgjTRzg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The sad and grim movie is available for free viewing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/frontline\/documentary\/20-days-in-mariupol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at PBS:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"NKgjhSPhVe\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/frontline\/documentary\/20-days-in-mariupol\/\">20 Days in Mariupol<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;20 Days in Mariupol&#8221; &#8212; FRONTLINE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/frontline\/documentary\/20-days-in-mariupol\/embed\/#?secret=I3gQlk8VZg#?secret=NKgjhSPhVe\" data-secret=\"NKgjhSPhVe\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The part showing the radio starts around the 35:16 mark.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you for sharing this, Paul.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul, who writes: Hi Thomas, &#8220;20 Days in Mariupol&#8221; won this year&#8217;s Oscar for Best Documentary. The movie is about the Russian siege to that city in the opening days of the Ukraine invasion, as recounted by a filmmaker located there. There is a segment of the movie about [&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":[3,305,43],"tags":[10492,5506,9688,2615],"class_list":["post-59340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-shortwave-radio","tag-20-days-in-mariupol","tag-radios-in-movies","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fr6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52244,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/carlos-shortwave-art-and-recordings-of-radio-dos-and-radio-romania-international\/","url_meta":{"origin":59340,"position":0},"title":"Carlos\u2019 Shortwave Art and recordings of Radio Dos and Radio Romania International","author":"Thomas","date":"March 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor and noted political cartoonist,\u00a0Carlos Latuff, who shares\u00a0his radio log art, this time following coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine through Radio Dos and Radio Romania International. 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