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BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion
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Re: BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion
#42What is the best type of radio, or best type of radios, to have in the event of a protracted, possibly nuclear conflict? Ready.gov suggests a hand crank or NOAA weather radio. Specifically, I suppose some good goals would be: 1. Receive instructions from any functioning local or state government. This would require that the local government know which type of radio the populace is likely to be listening on, which giv…
SWLing Post has a lot of info. Very friendly group there. https://swling.com/blog/2022/03/everyone-should-have-a-short... https://swling.com/blog/resources/shortwave-radio-reviews/
Yes - good resource.
A modern portable SW radio is very capable and power efficient on batteries. Do please explore the links provided above. Happy to help if you have any questions.
Re: BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion
#43What is the best type of radio, or best type of radios, to have in the event of a protracted, possibly nuclear conflict? Ready.gov suggests a hand crank or NOAA weather radio. Specifically, I suppose some good goals would be: 1. Receive instructions from any functioning local or state government. This would require that the local government know which type of radio the populace is likely to be listening on, which giv…
Local government is just going to wonder how they can get back on twitter if something serious happens.
Re: BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
I've never heard what's the actual problem with whatabaoutism. If you do bad things and get away with those, quit preaching at least.
Yup, there's nothing wrong with it. Crying about it just an effective way to shut down dissent.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
These number are provided by Russian government. How can you be sure that they are true? Also, those so called "referenda" did not conform to Ukrainian laws.
How can you be sure they are not true? During these last 30 years there's been 3 different referenda about Crimea, all with roughly the same outcomes. > Also, those so called "referenda" did not conform to Ukrainian laws. US independence did also not conform to British laws, the existence of Kurdistan is not conform with Iraqi or Syrian national laws, Catalonian independence would not be conform with Spanish law, yet…
Russian government has a long history of meddling with elections, non-admission of candidates, falsifying results, for example [1] or [2]. Therefore they cannot be trusted, especially in this case.
You cannot compare US war for independence with Crimea occupation because in US it was an internal movement to become idependent from a metropoly, but in Ukraine the events that occured were caused by Russian military intervention with purpose of annexation of Ukrainian territories. Before Russian intervention in 2014, there were no significant efforts to become independent, there were no war and nobody was dying.
The same with Catalonia.
> What's also not conform, with a whole slew of national laws, is violently overthrowing a democratically elected government
First, their president wasn't overthrown, because he has left the country himself. Second, that doesn't give Russia a right to annex territories.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2018_Primorsky_Krai_...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Moscow_City_Duma_election
Re: BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have any suggestions for I'm guessing like a USB receiver? I just ordered a baofeng half out of late night panic, half out of interest in radio/learning about Ham licensing. I know it has a USB so can program it so would be legal without a license to broadcast. But I think can still listen without modifications.
AFAIK, in the US it is technically illegal to transmit with a Baofeng radio in any way without a license. Even if you program it to only use the FRS/GMRS frequencies, it is not properly FCC certified as a device that is legal for use on those bands by an unlicensed operator. (For one thing, it may exceed the legal output power limit.) With an amateur license you can use pretty much whatever equipment you want, includ…
thanks for the info.
Yeah it's not like I have anyone to talk to lol I don't plan on chatting up a storm. I figured it is better than the crappy plastic hand crank radio thing I have and to me this is pretty long tail risk likely never be in that much of a bad situation.
Plus ham is interesting to me so who knows maybe in the future worth investing the time.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
A very small minority wanted to return to Russian rule on the eve of the invasion according to polling of Ukrainian people. And even if they did want to return to Russian rule (which they didn't), the just thing would've been to hold a referendum. They are a democracy after all.
I don't think referenda make much of a difference. 96% of Crimea ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Crimean_status_referendum ) voted to join Russia and 96% of Luhansk ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Donbas_status_referendums ) voted to leave Ukraine after the 2014 overthrow. Nothing much came out of it except 14,000 being killed in Donbas as result https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrain.…
it pains me that in 21 century we still have to explain that voting at gunpoint from 3rd party (armed occupation from another country) can't possibly be considered valid.
It's the same strategy Russia used to annex neighboring countries before WW2. - first they get their military in by any means necessary - then they take down any means of mass communication, TV towers, radio etc. Any leaders of the opposition will be killed or jailed. Only censored Russian propaganda will be shown. - then occupation army will establish a puppet government which will stage a referendum which asks to join Russia in some form. At that point it's rather irrelevant how the people vote because as Stalin said, it's not important who votes but rather who does the counting.
I think Anne Applebaum in one of her books has described how it went down in the countries that Russia annexed. Looked eerily like following a flowchart and evidently still works and sounds plausible to some people.
Scottish independence referendum seems to be a rather good example how such independence referendums really should look like to be accepted by the world.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a thought-extinguishing tactic. It attempts to redirect or scatter attention away from the topic at hand. This could be in a misguided sincere attempt to draw analogies, or could be more nefarious. Whataboutism seems to commonly occur when some agent of power is being criticized.
People who cry whataboutism are the ones extinguishing critical thought. No one can think or compare or draw analogies anymore. Analogy: Definition, a thing which is comparable to something else in significant respects. "works of art were seen as an analogy for works of nature" Anytime anyone brings-up Western aggression, people cry whataboutism and so the topic cannot be discussed anymore. It's fine for people to sa…
> Anytime anyone brings-up Western aggression, people cry whataboutism and so the topic cannot be discussed anymore
This is literally lie. There are both discussions and articles about Iraq, Afganistan and what have you all the time. Especially here in HN. Hey, why do you dare to talk about Iraque when you did not stopped Balkan conflicts, you never attempted to help Tibet or stop genocide going on in Chine, so no talking about anything until those two stop.
Whataboutism is not about analyzing or drawing paralel nor anything like that. It is transparently bad faith. Somehow twisting Ukraine and Eastern Europe in EU deserving punishment for Iraque and Syria from Putin, because Americans something something.
"Why dont countries surrounding Ukraine lock their borders to refugees, like I guess, they apparently demanded other countries surrounding conflicts to lock their borders ..." something something.
Re: BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion
#49Bring back Seva Novgorodsev! I was listening to the guy in the 80s via a SW radio... Fun times...
Re: BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion
#50What is the best type of radio, or best type of radios, to have in the event of a protracted, possibly nuclear conflict? Ready.gov suggests a hand crank or NOAA weather radio. Specifically, I suppose some good goals would be: 1. Receive instructions from any functioning local or state government. This would require that the local government know which type of radio the populace is likely to be listening on, which giv…
When I was a teenager I used a $10 shortwave radio for SWling. I think it could take 5V for external power from eg. a hand crank if you really wanted that (although nowadays I'm sure people have solar panels laying around, they're so useful for things like boats etc.) I don't think you need anything fancy.