🚨 MAYDAY from Belarus 🚨
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MAYDAY from Belarus I am EU1AEY, and this is an SOS to the global amateur radio community. My heart is breaking. Today, in Belarus, a harmless technical hobby is being treated as high treason.
Help me amplify this signal before our keys are silenced forever. Show this to a journalist, relay it to your national radio associations, and don’t let this intellectual genocide happen in total silence.
#hamradio #AmateurRadio #radio #DXing #hamr #swl #pota #sota
Belarus imprisoning amateur radio operators is the dumbest thing.
The only secrets we tell anyone are, “I am getting too much noise on my new antenna” or “I need to buy a new radio for that” or “say again your last”.
International messages send secret codes such as “5&9 with only 5 watts!” (which means the signal was free of noise).
Completely mad.
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@lab66 Anyone who sees this in my feed, PLEASE read the attached article.
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MAYDAY from Belarus
I am EU1AEY, and this is an SOS to the global amateur radio community. My heart is breaking. Today, in Belarus, a harmless technical hobby is being treated as high treason.
Help me amplify this signal before our keys are silenced forever. Show this to a journalist, relay it to your national radio associations, and don’t let this intellectual genocide happen in total silence.
#hamradio #AmateurRadio #radio #DXing #hamr #swl #pota #sota
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MAYDAY from Belarus
I am EU1AEY, and this is an SOS to the global amateur radio community. My heart is breaking. Today, in Belarus, a harmless technical hobby is being treated as high treason.
Help me amplify this signal before our keys are silenced forever. Show this to a journalist, relay it to your national radio associations, and don’t let this intellectual genocide happen in total silence.
#hamradio #AmateurRadio #radio #DXing #hamr #swl #pota #sota
@darc : Do you have persecution of Belarus #hamRadio operators 🧵 on your radar? Any idea how to find out whether this is true or a hoax? If this is real, how can we help? Will an outcry in liberal Western (= "enemy") media like Fediverse be perceived helpful or make matters worse? Maybe we should ask amnesty international, they have experience with such matters? Or maybe the Russian IARU member society can help?
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@darc : Do you have persecution of Belarus #hamRadio operators 🧵 on your radar? Any idea how to find out whether this is true or a hoax? If this is real, how can we help? Will an outcry in liberal Western (= "enemy") media like Fediverse be perceived helpful or make matters worse? Maybe we should ask amnesty international, they have experience with such matters? Or maybe the Russian IARU member society can help?
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MAYDAY from Belarus
I am EU1AEY, and this is an SOS to the global amateur radio community. My heart is breaking. Today, in Belarus, a harmless technical hobby is being treated as high treason.
Help me amplify this signal before our keys are silenced forever. Show this to a journalist, relay it to your national radio associations, and don’t let this intellectual genocide happen in total silence.
#hamradio #AmateurRadio #radio #DXing #hamr #swl #pota #sota
@lab66 Q: You got out/hidden?
If not, NOW WOULD BE A VERY GOOD TIME TO DO SO!
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@darc : Do you have persecution of Belarus #hamRadio operators 🧵 on your radar? Any idea how to find out whether this is true or a hoax? If this is real, how can we help? Will an outcry in liberal Western (= "enemy") media like Fediverse be perceived helpful or make matters worse? Maybe we should ask amnesty international, they have experience with such matters? Or maybe the Russian IARU member society can help?
@dj3ei @darc @lab66 Many African nations are extremely suspicious of people with radios. The opposition forces would use Baofengs to communicate, and use radio chatter of hams to disguise their military traffic. When caught, they would claim innocence and display fake ham licenses.
It's not the hams, its the paramilitary forces pretending they are hams, and the stupid authoritarians can't tell the difference. In the Vietnam war the CIA used press credentials so the north executed all press. -
@dj3ei @darc @lab66 Many African nations are extremely suspicious of people with radios. The opposition forces would use Baofengs to communicate, and use radio chatter of hams to disguise their military traffic. When caught, they would claim innocence and display fake ham licenses.
It's not the hams, its the paramilitary forces pretending they are hams, and the stupid authoritarians can't tell the difference. In the Vietnam war the CIA used press credentials so the north executed all press. -
One might think that EW1AEH and EW1ABT are official call signs issued by Belarus authorities to the people now accused. Does anybody know whether that is true or not, and would be willing to share that knowledge?
Is there any official rule that Belarus hams may not transmit right now? (Some do.)
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MAYDAY from Belarus
I am EU1AEY, and this is an SOS to the global amateur radio community. My heart is breaking. Today, in Belarus, a harmless technical hobby is being treated as high treason.
Help me amplify this signal before our keys are silenced forever. Show this to a journalist, relay it to your national radio associations, and don’t let this intellectual genocide happen in total silence.
#hamradio #AmateurRadio #radio #DXing #hamr #swl #pota #sota
@lab66 I'm a baofeng user.
Am I next?
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One might think that EW1AEH and EW1ABT are official call signs issued by Belarus authorities to the people now accused. Does anybody know whether that is true or not, and would be willing to share that knowledge?
Is there any official rule that Belarus hams may not transmit right now? (Some do.)
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@df9hc @dj3ei @darc @lab66 @DL7TNY "Behind the absurdity of charging Baofeng users with ‘High Treason‘ lies a terrifying intellectual genocide and an urgent call for international solidarity"
Seems like they are only going after Baofeng users? The Belarus state apparently cannot tell the difference between legitimate ham radio users and Ukranian sappers/soldiers because they use the same radio equipment.
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