I was tuning around the shortwave bands Saturday evening when, in the midst of the CW (Morse code) portion of the 40-meter ham radio band, I heard a weak signal in what sounded like Russian. It was not a ham radio operator; hams typically engage in conversation, identifying themselves with government-issued calll signs. This guy was not conversing; he was broadcasting, pausing every few minutes for ten or twenty seconds before resuming his broadcast. He was using single-sideband, a more efficient form of AM favored by hams, and his signal was weak, so he may have been using ham radio equipment. His broadcast was peppered with slogans such as “glory to the armed forces of Ukraine!” and “glory to the USA!”. I could catch enough of the rest to recognize that the language was indeed Russian, not Ukrainian, and that he had a serious bone to pick with Vladimir Putin. It…
