73QRTSK
73 is goodbye, QRT is stopping transmission, SK is silent key (i.e. dead)
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- Jan 2026
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steanlab.medium.com steanlab.medium.com
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destroying an emergency lifeline that historically coordinates rescue operations when all other forms of communication fail.
Indeed. Vgl [[DARES – Dutch Amateur Radio Emergency Service]] It is the reason I still have equipment at home and keep my license. I know how useful it is in an emergency.
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The most terrifying aspect for operators worldwide is how our most sacred tradition has been weaponized as an indictment. Our QSL confirmation cards and logbooks are being treated as criminal evidence of foreign contact.
Wow. QSL cards and logs of conversation used as 'proof'
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If this crackdown had reached me when I was still active in the country, my own call sign would have certainly placed me in front of a firing squad
His callsign is EU1AEY, EU! QED!
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But logic does not exist in a state ruled by technical savages. To them, the fact that you can solder an antenna, track a weather satellite, or understand the physics of wave propagation makes you an existential threat
Indeed. It is an act against independent agency based on tech know-how. Vgl the fate of the Donetsk FabLab during the 2014 Russian overthrow of the Donbas: immediately a former regular visitor showed up with armed men to tell its manager that they were subversive elements. Here too individual agency is the issue.
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The charges they face are staggering. These men have been indicted for High Treason and Espionage. Under the Belarusian Criminal Code, these charges carry sentences of life imprisonment or even the death penalty
They are charged with treason/espionage, which carries life an death sentences.
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we watched our colleagues – Andrey Repetiy (EW1ABT) and Nikita Krasko (EW1AEH) – being forced to publicly repent for the “crime” of technical curiosity and international communication. They were coerced on screen to renounce their own technical expertise as something harmful. Vyacheslav Benko (EW1ACE) remains behind bars alongside them.
Three hams imprisoned for their tech hobby
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ollowing the purge of Wikipedia editors and independent researchers, the regime has launched the “Radio Amateurs Case.” This chilling title deliberately echoes the infamous “Doctors’ Plot” of the Stalin era, where an entire group of the country’s best specialists was designated as enemies of the state.
Belarus previously prosecuted wikipedia editors, and independent researchers. Now ham radio operators.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20260120184422/https://steanlab.medium.com/mayday-389f5713fee4
Siarhei Besarab hamradio operator EU1AEY, describes how Belarussian amateur radio hobbyists are prosecuted for their international conversations with other licensed radio amateurs
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- Dec 2025
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Eine Person wird vom belarussischen Geheimdienst KGB verhört und muss dabei ihr Handy abgeben. Am nächsten Tag meldet das Antivirensystem des Smartphones eine verdächtige App. Die Person löscht sie, aber ahnt nicht, dass sie eine weitere Spionage-App auf ihrem Gerät hat. Diese App hat Zugriff auf Mikrofon und Kamera; sie ermöglicht es, in verschlüsselten Messengern, SMS und E-Mails mitzulesen, Telefonate mitzuhören und aufzuzeichnen sowie den Standort zu überwachen. Man kann sogar das gesamte Smartphone aus der Ferne löschen, wenn man will. Die Kontrolle über diese App hat: der belarussische Geheimdienst.
Well duh. Anytime you need to release your device(s) to whatever authority it's compromised. Everywhere. The journalists in this case seem unaware of opsec need
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- Feb 2022
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“We think there will be a need to rethink the whole security situation if these Russian troops and weapons are here to stay [in Belarus] as they appear,”
Was Belarus allying itself to Russia really that unexpected?
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- Oct 2021
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ourworldindata.org ourworldindata.org
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Coronavirus Pandemic Data Explorer. (n.d.). Our World in Data. Retrieved March 3, 2021, from https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer
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