Topband: Personal decision

[Mike Smith VE9AA]

Tree (et al)

 

You are wise.  When I started reading the political comments on this list, I
groaned.

I am not much of a politician, but even if I were, I come to ham radio to
get away from all that.

 

Throughout my life, I have always relished working folks in all countries
w/o giving thought to how

their governments were running their countries.

 

Let's give that a rest and get back to complaining about QRN, short
antennas, or the lack of NA stations Roger gets to work over and over every
Wednesday !

 

;-)

 

73 dit dit

 

Mike VE9AA

 

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

 

 

 

 

Mike, Coreen & Corey

Keswick Ridge, NB