<story><title>BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/4/22961286/bbc-news-blocked-in-russia-ukraine-invasion-shortwave-radio</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mariojv</author><text>What is the best type of radio, or best type of radios, to have in the event of a protracted, possibly nuclear conflict?&lt;p&gt;Ready.gov suggests a hand crank or NOAA weather radio. Specifically, I suppose some good goals would be:&lt;p&gt;1. Receive instructions from any functioning local or state government. This would require that the local government know which type of radio the populace is likely to be listening on, which gives an advantage to FM or weather radios.&lt;p&gt;2. Communicate with other regional survivors.&lt;p&gt;3. Global news, for which shortwave would be indispensable.&lt;p&gt;Maybe multiple radios that can receive on different frequencies would be best? I really know very little about this topic other than basic physical signal characteristics.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I don&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;prep,&amp;quot; but I occasionally browse this website when doomscrolling, which has a few suggestions: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;theprepared.com&amp;#x2F;gear&amp;#x2F;reviews&amp;#x2F;emergency-radio&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;theprepared.com&amp;#x2F;gear&amp;#x2F;reviews&amp;#x2F;emergency-radio&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/4/22961286/bbc-news-blocked-in-russia-ukraine-invasion-shortwave-radio</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iso1631</author><text>Doesn&amp;#x27;t look like very sophisticated blocking, on MTS at least they seem to intercept DNS traffic and respond to www.bbc.com wtih their own&lt;p&gt;If you ignore the certificate warning you get a redirect to &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blocked.mts.ru&amp;#x2F;?host=www.bbc.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blocked.mts.ru&amp;#x2F;?host=www.bbc.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Which states  (in Russian):&lt;p&gt;Access to the information resource is limited on the basis of the Federal Law of July 27, 2006 N 149-FZ &amp;quot;On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection&lt;p&gt;If you override the DNS entry, it loads fine, at least for me on my MTS circuit.</text></comment>