ARLA/CLUSTER: Ucrania: Estações piratas emitem em telegrafia

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

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.

Our thanks to Andy G0SFJ for the above information