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<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td style="box-sizing:border-box"><div id="gmail-story" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:618.667px;font-size:16px;height:auto;float:left"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt">50th anniversary of invasion of Czechoslovakia</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box">At approximately 11 pm on August 20, 1968 forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other Warsaw pact members invaded Czechoslovakia, radio amateurs played their part in the resistance<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Radio amateurs put their lives in danger to transmit information about the invasion to the outside world and their technical expertise was invaluable to keep small broadcast stations on the air.</p><p align="left" style="box-sizing:border-box"><img src="https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/39521834_2000951723261670_5325675261386031104_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=7a5df6b14cf243614fa8d9989b85f349&oe=5C06CDBE" width="100%" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; height: auto;"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><span class="gmail-fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0" id="gmail-fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span class="gmail-hasCaption" style="box-sizing:border-box"><font color="#999999" size="2" style="box-sizing:border-box">Czechoslovaks carry their national flag past a burning Soviet tank in Prague</font></span></span><span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Radio Prague recently published an obituary for radio amateur and world renowned expert on short-wave radio<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Oldřich Číp</strong><span> </span>who passed away in July aged 87.<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Beginning in 1959 and for more than 25 years, Oldřich produced a weekly English-language program "Radio Prague Calling All Radio Hobbyists".<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Following the Soviet invasion Oldřich used his technical expertise to aid the "free Czechoslovak Radio," putting himself in danger in an effort to provide factual news and information about the events taking place. Thanks to the large number of smaller facilities of Czechoslovak Radio scattered all over Prague and complicated infrastructure that connected them, they were able to continue broadcasting for quite some time.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.radio.cz/en/section/special/czech-short-wave-radio-expert-oldrich-cip-dies-at-87" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">https://www.radio.cz/en/section/special/<br style="box-sizing:border-box">czech-short-wave-radio-expert-oldrich-cip-dies-at-87</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">National Public Radio (NPR) reports that following the Soviet invasion<span> </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box">"Information flowed through an improvised network of Amateur Radio buffs"<br style="box-sizing:border-box"></em><a href="https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93719386&t=1534686904963" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">https://www.npr.org/templates/story/<br style="box-sizing:border-box">story.php?storyId=93719386&t=1534686904963</a></p><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Frank Melville W2AQK</strong><span> </span>was one of those who received messages from fellow Czechoslovak radio amateurs, download the report from<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/38561" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/38561</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Czechoslovakian station calling for help during the Soviet invasion Aug 20/21, 1968. Loosely translated it says Czechoslovakia being invaded by the USSR, and asks world for help, uses the psuedo callsign of OK1CSSR<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-644758299/czechoslovakian-station-calling-for-help-during-the-russian-invasion" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">https://soundcloud.com/user-644758299/czechoslovakian-station-calling-for-help-during-the-russian-invasion</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Czech Radio Club - Český radioklub<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box">"Radio amateurs took advantage of the brief period of cosmetic liberalization in 1968 (the so-called Prague Spring) to establish a new magazine of their own, Radioamatersky zpravodaj - Amateur Radio Report. This magazine managed to survive and was even published after 1989 as the magazine of the Czechoslovak Radio Club until the dissolution of the Czechoslovak federation when it folded."<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.crk.cz/ENG/AMAE" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">https://www.crk.cz/ENG/AMAE</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Radio Free Europe<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box">How Listeners Thwarted Radio Jamming In Czechoslovakia<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://pressroom.rferl.org/p/6724.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">https://pressroom.rferl.org/p/6724.html</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://coldwarradios.blogspot.com/2018/08/radio-free-europe-operating-in-safe.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">https://coldwarradios.blogspot.com/2018/08/radio-free-europe-operating-in-safe.html</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table>
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