Topband: Personal decision

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Guys - I need to step in here.

This is not what ham radio people do.

The Russian ham that you are pretending to punish is not the person
responsible for what is happening in Ukraine.

Think about the situation if you were a USA ham - and some other ham
decided not to work you because they did not like the decisions someone in
Washington had made.

Throughout my ham career - I have enjoyed the opportunity to meet people in
places that I was taught were bad places and become to understand that they
were people just like me - and were perhaps more helpless to control their
government than I can control mine.

We all have worked Russians over the years - and I bet almost everyone here
would be in the pileup if a station from North Korea came on the air.

I will always feel the best hope for humanity is to get to know each other
and understand each other's situation better and have some understanding.
Ham radio is one way to break down the political barriers and get to know
real people.

I have kind of felt sorry for the stations currently using D1 as a prefix.
They are just pawns in a chess game and through no fault of their own,
ended up in a situation where they couldn't get a license.  They came up
with a work around that allowed them to get on the air.  If I was in their
situation, I would probably do the same thing.

If Vladimir Putin were a ham, I could understand you deciding not to work
him - but let's not pretend our friends who we have been working over the
years are responsible.

I will not tolerate anything less from the members of this list.

73 Tree N6TR





On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 5:46 AM Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yup.  Me too.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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> On 2/24/2022 8:03 AM, MU 4CX250B wrote:
> > Good move, Mark. We all know the current assault on Ukraine is not the
> > fault of our many good Russian ham buddies, and while I know we all
> > wish them well, it's more important at this moment to get the word out
> > to the Russisn public that their leader's ruthless behavior is scorned
> > and despised by the majority of the world's people.
> > 73,
> > Jim w8zr
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On Feb 24, 2022, at 5:33 AM, Mpridesti via Topband<
> topband at contesting.com>  wrote:
> >>
> >> 
> >>> I plan to NOT work any Russian stations during the ARRL DX SSB contest
> as
> >>> I  object to the in unprovoked war they started.
> >>>
> >>> Ukraine hams have already shut down.
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Mark, K1RX
> >>
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