{"id":9791,"date":"2014-05-30T07:40:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T11:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=9791"},"modified":"2014-05-30T07:40:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T11:40:17","slug":"cw-pirates-promote-separatist-movement-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/cw-pirates-promote-separatist-movement-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"CW pirates promote separatist movement in Ukraine ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Disputed<\/a><\/p>\n

(Source: Southgate Amateur Radio News<\/a>)<\/p>\n

“Two CW [Morse Code] stations have appeared on the higher HF bands, claiming to operate from Donetsk, as promoting a separatist ‘Peoples’ Republic of Donetsk’, or ‘NovoRossiya New Russia’.<\/p>\n

The callsigns, D0A<\/strong> and 1C4M<\/strong> are believed to be two operators on the same transmitter. The callsigns are invalid and do not count for anything in ham radio terms.<\/p>\n

While a QSL manager may be appointed shortly in Donetsk, communications are poor, and direct QSL is unlikely to succeed.<\/p>\n

There is some doubt that the stations are really in Donetsk. There is evidence that they may be operating from Kazakhstan.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many thanks to the Southgate ARC<\/a> for this news item.<\/p>\n

Has anyone logged or recorded these pirates?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Southgate Amateur Radio News) “Two CW [Morse Code] stations have appeared on the higher HF bands, claiming to operate from Donetsk, as promoting a separatist ‘Peoples’ Republic of Donetsk’, or ‘NovoRossiya New Russia’. The callsigns, D0A and 1C4M are believed to be two operators on the same transmitter. The callsigns are invalid and do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[81,3,297],"tags":[2961,2960,4092,580,2615],"class_list":["post-9791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-news","category-pirate-radio","tag-1c4m","tag-d0a","tag-pirate-radio","tag-southgate-arc","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2xV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51969,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/tuning-in-ukrainian-radio-and-state-of-emergency-includes-amateur-radio-ban\/","url_meta":{"origin":9791,"position":0},"title":"Tuning in Ukrainian Radio and State Of Emergency Includes Amateur Radio Ban","author":"Thomas","date":"February 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Richard Langley, who shares the following note he also posted to Glenn Hauser's io group: As we know, Radio Ukraine International, a.k.a. 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