New Pirate Stations in Ukraine Conflict

[OldSeaRock]

Short article.  http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2014/may/new_pirate_stations_in_ukraine_conflict.htm

New pirate stations in Ukraine conflict

Two CW 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 not count for anything in ham radio terms.

While a QSL manager may be appointed shortly in Donetsk, communications are poor, and direct QSL is unlikely to succeed.

There is some doubt that the stations are really in Donetsk. There is evidence that they may be operating from Kazakhstan.

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[OldSeaRock]

Re-post from another forum:

DØA was copied on 14017 kHz here in west central FL two nights ago 0340-0405Z 05-29-2014.

IMO the signal seemed too loud for band conditions at that time to be Kazakhstan, unless it was quite a QRO station.

Perhaps someone would recognize the operators fist?

Listen to a sound clip I made on this link,

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1yKApVmJOGe

There's an operator on 15m lately using a legitimate Ukrainian callsign whilst proclaiming to be in the new Republic of Donetsk, the loudest signal on the band and the dirtiest with artifacts buck-shooting all over the place!

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